It's our last day in San Pedro La Laguna. We'll catch a boat across the lake to Panajachel in the early afternoon, and a shuttle will take us from there to the Casa Luna hotel in Antigua for one more night. Tomorrow we'll embark on another long bus ride with San Jose, Costa Rica, as the final destination.
We just came back from breakfast - omelette con verdura, which means 'with vegetables'- lots of them! - at 'Lole's', a tiny cafe right on our street where we can watch the morning comings and goings: people opening up their shops with woven clothing, leather goods, jewellery; a second floor being added on to the house across the lane; women in traditional dress - most women here wear it - carrying tubs with banana bread, coconut bread, chocolate bread, cinnamon rolls on their heads, asking us to buy while we still have full plates in front of us.
On the 'costumer' wall customers have left their comments and thanks, on the coke machine a sign listing the prices for drinks during Happy Hour - 'all day!' - shares space with another, shaped like a headstone, with a cross at the top and the name of a woman, 1958-2005, 'mia esposa'; in the back a small tv with a cooking show ...
A small old Maya woman with grey braids, in a dark skirt and beautiful sky-blue blouse comes in, greets Lole, who towers about a foot above me and has the figure of a valkury, then goes to a chair a couple of tables from ours, kneels down in front of it, and says a prayer, gets up and leaves again.
There are so many impressions, so many small scenes like this - if only I don't forget ...
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