Antigua rest day

Rest day in Antigua which is the original capital of Guatemala - but being surrounded by active volcanoes it kept getting destroyed so they moved the capital to Guatemala City. Antigua is a really interesting place - cobbled streets, colourful buildings and some amazing architecture. The women and girls wear brightly coloured traditional dress similar to Peru.
We head out for coffee and sit in a lovely internal courtyard and the cake and cortado is delicious. We wander round the city most of the morning and have lunch at a lovely Italian style restaurant that looks like it is from another era.
We had hoped to walk up and see view of volcanoes but changing tyres ready for paved section takes a lot longer than expected - Kenny the bike mechanic takes 7 attempts using a compression pump to get the tyres to bed in!
Dinner was back at the Italian place - 2 starters, 2 mains, 1 dessert, 3 glasses of wine, a mojito and service charge was £55. Half of the bill for previous night. We again sleep with our balcony doors open to get a cool breezeRead more