Let's get started - Antigua, Guatemala.

Avant toute chose, parlons langues :-). Je reçois régulièrement des plaintes de défenseurs de la langue française - dont je suis pourtant un piètre ambassadeur - concernant la langue de rédaction du blog. Pour régler ça à la régulière, je compterai les commentaires des prochains jours. Si il y en a plus en français, on repassera au français (oui monsieur). Sinon, sinon...... 

Before anything, let's talk business... Since we are French all three (baguette!), we have not really decided yet on the language for the following posts. More english comments will mean posts in english. If french comments win, we'll switch soon. spanish and swedish are off the game (indeed :-P)...

So the trip really starts on Monday, 0am, time to checkin in order to get the emergency exit seats (check :-) ). 

Arnaud, Sevag and me all met in Madrid on Monday night, eventually ending our scare of flight disruptions.

We had some time to read the guide brought by Arnaud over the 12-hour flight, direct to Guatemala city, with a quite surprising route over Halifax, New York, Florida,... Landing eventually arrived - for the record, an hour delay on a 12-hour flight is much more confortable than the 8-hour delay I had on the 50-minute flight from Toulouse to Madrid last week. After a short time of bargaining, we got on a cab to Antigua, which used to be the capital of Guatemala until a terrible earthquake teared it down in 1773 if my memory is correct (and the Lonely Planet's).

The city is surrounded with three massive volcanoes. But we probably wont climb any of these, we will wait for smaller ones further south (still digesting Christmas).

And here is a picture to prove that we all got here alive...

I will try to keep the map to the right updated, with as usual the blue flag showing our position, and the different planned stops. Red pins are the places we will go to, whereas blue pins are only ideas so far (and might remain that way)...