Thursday, August 09, 2018

The Hitchhiker's Guide to La Antigua


Radio listeners and readers of a certain generation will call how the inhabitants of a planet called Golgafrincham managed to rid themselves of a useless third of their population by creating three oversized intergalactic vessels to seek out a new world, but only one of them, Ark Ship 'B', the one with all the telephone sanitizers and hairdressers, was actually launched into deep space. 

Thanks to Youtubers like this, Antigua is becoming that spaceship...though Douglas Adams mysteriously omitted yoga teachers from his examples. 




Travel Mum appears somewhat deluded about the market in La Antigua as you will almost never come across an actual farmer in there, and a quick visit to our local tomatera just outside town would quickly disabuse her of any notions of cleanliness in the cultivation techniques used around here. 

$4 or $5 for a beer?! (Even if it does actually appear to be a margarita.) 

She's not wrong about the dearth of decent Asian food though. I recently had a dire shared experience of El Chinito Atroz featuring chunks of soggy teryaki 'chicken' which may well have been sourced from the canine community that amasses outside the matadero beside El Calvario. 


1 comment:

norm said...

My wife and I shared a compound a few years ago with a Dutch couple, they worked an early shift (Dutch time) getting done with work about the time we were getting up. They were saving money for a house, working over the internet during the Dutch winters. They had been doing this for a few years and needed a few more years of saving to afford the house they wanted. They were pretty into the vegetables but were well aware of the need to sanitize them well before eating.