Happy Father’s Day

In Guatemala Father’s Day is celebrated on June 17th, so this year, is the same day as in many other countries, Sunday. As in many places kids prepare gifts at school to get to their parents on this day. Both of mine gave me my presents several days ago, a tie hanger and a mug with a […]

“Winter” is officially here!

In Guatemala, we threat weather in a very different way than almost everywhere in the world. We call ourselves the country of Eternal Spring, although if you ask anyone when spring is, they will tell, there is no spring in Guatemala. As you may have heard, here we have Verano (it literary translates to Summer, but […]

Happy mother´s day – May 10th

Happy Mother´s Day to all Guatemalan Mothers, and to the mothers living here, even Google  Guatemala changed it´s doodle today to celebrate Mother´s Day.  But why is it celebrated on May 10th in Guatemala, I really do not know, as I understand it is celebrated this day in Mexico, Chile, El Salvador and other countries. […]