We got up feeling “well rough” and had breakfast which made us feel better. It was tempting to stay here in Antigua as all our friends were moving into the Hotel Placido. However, we decided to leave for the good of our health and our finances. We said “adios” to all and gave out a lot of telephone numbers for future encounters in London before jumping on the bus to Guate.
We went to the Pension Meza where we had stayed previously but there were only communal dormitory rooms available, and it was full of the usual beanbags that we tried to avoid. We decided to go elsewhere and after a bit of scrobbling about we got an excellent, clean double room at the Hotel España on Avenida 9/Calle 15 for Q11 Guatemalan Quetzals.
We then went on to the clean and immaculate and efficient Banco Internacional to change up some more money. The sidewalks were assaulted by choking black exhaust fumes from the buses and trucks on the road.
I have just remembered that last night we ended up talking in bad Spanish with the eccentric Italian and the Canadian skinhead in “Los Pollos”! This morning we saw the Austrian girl who hadn’t even started her Spanish classes but was already staying out all night drinking on her first day in Antigua.
We had a short kip (sleep) in our hotel room and then went to the cinema. For Q1.50 Guatemalan Quetzals we saw the end of a crappy American comedy. “Hamburger: The Motion Picture” is a 1986 teen sex comedy film directed by Mike Marvin and starring Leigh McCloskey. The film was largely inspired by fast food jobs and the Hamburger University program of the McDonald's Corporation.
In 1955 Harry Angel (Rourke), a New York City private investigator, is hired by a man named Louis Cyphre (de Niro) to track down John Liebling, a crooner known professionally as Johnny Favorite who suffered severe neurological trauma resulting from injuries he received in World War II. His investigation takes him to New Orleans, where he becomes embroiled in a series of brutal murders. Favorite's incapacity disrupted a contract with Cyphre regarding unspecified collateral.
The sound and picture quality were good, with subtitles in Spanish which aided our learning of the language. The film was called "Corazón Satanico" in Spanish. After the film we had chicken and chips and came back to our room to find a load of small cockroaches scurrying for cover on the floor.
I showered, washed some smalls (underwear) and had an early night for a change.
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