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Subject: [Leica] ever been to Guatemala City?
From: simon.apekop at gmail.com (simon jessurun)
Date: Tue Dec 2 07:56:41 2008
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Be very carefull in Antigua a wrong turn a foot can get you in serious
trouble.
Have a safe journet,simon

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Stasys Petravicius <stasys1@cox.net> wrote:

> Brian- No- but we stopped for a day tour in Guatemala several years ago
> during our 10 day cruise down the coast from LA.  There were short men with
> automatic rifles when we drove thru villages at any building that looked
> reasonable. Don't know what they were protecting. We were a little 
> unnerved.
> Took a nice tour across a lake to a small town where we did lunch and
> shopped. On the way back to the lake, we witnessed a group of several
> policemen trying to shoot a mad dog on the beach- it was an awful scene.
> They could not hit it from 6-8 feet away. It was like a hollywood B movie. 
> I
> read in the LA Times that it is still wild there. Probably the drug
> traffickers- as in Mexico. I'd be careful- but I'd go. Someone said the
> short men with the automatic rifles didn't have bullets in them. We didn't
> get a chance to ask. Good luck! Stasys
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Brian Reid wrote:
>
>  I have an opportunity to travel with my wife and my M8 to Guatemala City
>> for a few days at the end of December. I have no idea what Guatemala City 
>> is
>> like, but there are American hotels there in which she (Victoria) would 
>> feel
>> safe. I'm sure I could find things to photograph. Any positive or negative
>> recommendations?
>>
>> Brian Reid
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] ever been to Guatemala City?)
Message from stasys1 at cox.net (Stasys Petravicius) ([Leica] ever been to Guatemala City?)