Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >