I Could Live Here!

Why would you do that? This is the question of our waiter in one of our favorite neighborhood cafes. We have stopped in for an afternoon beer (Gallo, a local brand) to celebrate getting through another week of Spanish studies. Our waiter is from Holland. He's traveling for a year or so - or maybe more, he says. He spent a couple of months in Antigua and then continued on, traveling through Central America and then to South America. He says he got as far as Bolivia when he remembered how much he loved Antigua and decided to come back here for a while! Meanwhile, he says, he spent some time in Costa Rica and was amazed at how expensive it was. And Antigua is such a fabulous city, he says. Why would you live in Costa Rica when you could live in Antigua?, he asks. Good question.