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JUNE 2007 New York-Mexico Trip
MAY 2006
David's GRADUATION University of Rochester
MARCH 2006
Jennifer's Birthday and Tuk-Tuk
CHRISTMAS 2005 WILLIAMSBURG
Cernikovsky Family
Christmas 2004 mail
Fuego explosions
8th January 2003, 2004
January 2003
Antigua family photos
House 2007
Photos 2003
Baths 2002
Kitchens 2002
Fireplaces 2002
Fountain 2006
Guest Apt 2004
NYC to Antigua trip 2002
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Jenny
Graduation
2003
Paris
April 2003
Germany,
Luxembourg
June 2003
London
April 2002
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Tomas, Barbara, Jennifer & David
Cernikovsky
Grand Harbour of Valletta, Malta, at
Christmas. Behind us is Fort St.Angelo and the fortress town of
Vittoriosa. |
Christmas 2011 in the Maltese sunshine. Boxing Day, when most of
Malta was shut down for the holidays,
looking or a restaurant. We found it, in the fishing port of Marsaxklokk,
(pronounced "Marsa-schlock"), full of locals and great
food. |
Christmas in Malta, in the sunshine, with one of the very few real
Christmas trees
that were available on the island.
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In our new garden, the weekend after Thanksgiving,
by the fishpond. Emilce took the photo, before Jenny
returned to Austin, Texas, David to New Jersey and Brielle to
Washington, D.C. A short visit, but good fun was had by
all. |
Sumpango, Sacatepequez, 1.11.11 ... more and more
giant kites, and more elaborate, there is "new product development" even
in the kite business.
Click here to see many more photos from Sumpango. |
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Antigua, Guatemala: "The situation
was ravishingly beautiful, at the base and under the shade of the
Volcano de Agua, and the view was bounded on all sides by mountains
of perpetual green; the morning air was soft and balmy, but
pure and refreshing. With good government and laws, and one's
friends around, I never saw a more beautiful spot on which man could
desire to pass his allotted time on earth." So wrote
John Lloyd Stephens, visiting Antigua in December 1839, in
"Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan".
We quite agree with his assessment, and the government is still
working on its part, too. And many friends are already here,
while others visit from time to time. Please come and visit
us, too.
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Barbara with ladies from Santiago Chimaltenango, a
town in the department of Huehuetenango, near the Mexican border.
The ladies wore the most beautiful "huipiles" of their home town and
were visiting Sumpango for the first time. By the way, Santiago
Chimaltenango, although far away in a remote mountain area, has its own
page on
Facebook. Click here to see
many more photos from Sumpango. |
This photo was taken on June 5, 1988 at Machu
Picchu. We are arranging a 15-day trip there with a group of
friends from Antigua. There are several pages on this website that
describe the September 2012 trip in detail. It will be done in
great luxury, but with a group, we are getting a good price.
Lima, Sacred Valley (to acclimatize to altitude), the only hotel at
the top of Machu Picchu, Hotel Monasterio in Cuzco, trains with food
and entertainment on board, Lake Titicaca, Arequipa, Colca Canyon,
domestic flights. Lots of sightseeing, but also a lot of free
time to explore on your own. If you would like to join us,
please write. The trip details are protected by a user
name/password.
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The Cernikovsky's family
9/11 memories ...
.... for the 10th anniversary, click here for a long page of our photos and
experiences of that day in 2001
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In September, Guatemala celebrates independence from Spain on 9/15/1821.
There are processions with school bands and a lot of playing of
the very long, very nice national anthem. We put up flags out
in the street. After re-building the rooftops in May, we also
repainted the front, so now it's the White House, or "Casa Blanca". |
June 2011. Felix can certainly make plants grow. This is
our garden. A few rows below this photo is the new one, which
is also growing. Click to see a big image. They call
Antigua the town of eternal Spring ... you can see why! |
April 2011. Jennifer moved to live alone
in Austin, TX, at
http://www.marbridge.org/. She is loving the activities,
two "classes" in the morning, two in the afternoon, trips
offsite to shop, to movies (she has 800 movies, right behind her),
Lady Bird Johnson's botanical gardens, and looking forward to a
September Caribbean cruise. |
January 2011. We visited El Mirador, a huge,
very remote early Maya city, from 650 B.C. to 200 B.C. With 20
friends, we flew in on helicopters. Click on the photo to see more. |
Click to see a few photos from our
Christmas in London, Cologne, Paris and Miami |
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Barbara and Sonia in our kitchen ... they have been spending money again, as they do
every Saturday in the market just behind our house. All these
flowers cost about $4! What a treat! In New York, that
would have been $40! After Sonia gets the flowers, she goes
again to buy fruits and vegetables for the coming week, oranges for
fresh squeezed juice, eggs, etc ... she spends about $15 in the
market every Saturday morning and that includes the flowers! |
No, not a new restaurant
in Antigua ... our new patio. The grass has to grow a bit ... |
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May 2011: Felix makes things grow ... see
below what it looked like a year ago... |
August 2010: Our new garden ... our house is
to the right, with new doors and windows and a patio. For years,
there was a very noisy church, with services many times a week. It
also had an extremely bad rock-band, with drums, practicing several
nights a week. They would not lower the noise and so, in the end we
bought the property. We have now turned it into a garden with a
fountain, a patio, parking (and a covered walkway to the
apartments), plus a small garden and a new laundry for one of our
apartments in the far back right. Now we start gardening. |
The plot next door ... our house is to the
right. This is what it looked like in April 2010, after the noisy
church moved out. Silence, at last!
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April 14, 2010: Volcano Acatenango, seen from our rooftop, WITH
SNOW! People who have lived here all their lives have never seen
anything like it. And, on the left, Volcano Fuego, puffing.
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Jennifer comes up with many good ideas,
this time to take a formal family photo for Christmas presents.
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Easter 2010: For this Easter, Barbara worked several days on her
sewing machine and made the splendid decoration you see on the front
of our house.
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During Semana Santa in Antigua, hundreds of
thousands of people visit for the Easter processions. This photo
was on Palm Sunday in front of our house.
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Semana Santa in Antigua: the float, called "anda",
carried by 80 men, is passing our house (yellow, on the left) on
Palm Sunday. Click to see our photos of
carpets
and an animated sequence of a
procession passing our house.
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Christmas 2009 in our garden ... it's very sunny ... click to see a
larger image |
September, October 2009:
London,
Cologne,
Armenia and Turkey, with
Jennifer and Sona. Here we are at the Khor Virap Monastery
(pronounced "Chor"), with a vineyard, in Armenia. And Mount Ararat,
where Noah's Ark landed after the flood. Ararat is in Turkey, behind
a closed border, but as we are travelling, Turkey and Armenia are
talking for the first time in 20 years about reopening the border.
Spectacular!
Click on the images to see more or
our photos!
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Aspendos in Turkey, an extremely well preserved 2nd century A.D.
Roman amphitheater near Antalya.
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Kaunos, 6th century B.C. hilltop town near
Dalyan, on the Mediterranean coast, with Sona, Jenny and Barbara.
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Efes.
Library of Celsos, 135 A.D. Click for an even larger image.
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We have a full-time gardener, Felix, on the
right, who takes care of our gardens inside the house, the planted
area behind, as well as hundreds of plants in the hallways and the
rooftops. Benigno, in the red shirt, worked for us for several
years and, before we handed the 200 gardens and over 70 new trees to
the city, took care of the Alameda, watering, planting, fumigating,
fertilizing, and so on. Here they are in May 2009 (our house on the
right), planting a new jacaranda tree, in garden #196.
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Further down the street, here are two more new
jacaranda trees, #199 and 200, in May 2009. After the photo was
taken, the metal "protections" were installed, without which new
trees would not survive in the Alameda.
Click here to go to the 7 pages that describe
the project and its "members" ... between 2002-2009, we have
constructed 200 gardens, which we are maintaining. We have
planted 72 new trees in new places, and as replacements for trees
that died. Of the 200 gardens, in the 7 years, 26 got smashed by
crazy drivers and with the help of friends and neighbors, we have
replaced them.
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We drove from Antigua to Houston, in two cars,
with Barbara's wheelchair, and then took a long trip returning home
through Mexico, in January and February 2009. The photos are coming
... please visit us again soon. This is breakfast at our lovely
hotel overlooking Guanajuato, one of the old colonial silver mining
towns.
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Right after we returned from Mexico, Josef & Jana Cernikovsky, from
Vermont, visited us in Antigua and we made some trips around
Guatemala together. Josef is a first class photographer.
To see the best of the 5,000 photos that he took, click
here.
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Antigua at Christmas 2008 ... the whole
family's here
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Jennifer & Monica, at the "giant kites" of
Sumpango, not far from Antigua, 1st November 2008.
Click on this photo to see
many others from this fascinating trip, with many friends
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June 2008: In the
Outer Court of the "Forbidden City" in the center of Beijing,
fascinating! Click here to go to an
index of all our photos from Korea and China. Barbara
wrote a long narrative of the trip on that page.
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The last day in
Beijing
it was raining and we took a day-long taxi ride from one spot to
another, the driver waiting while we had lunch, shopped for shoes or
saw places, and here he took us to pose in front of the Birds' Nest,
the Olympic Stadium.
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The Great Wall of China:
we climbed a stretch of it and here you can see more of the Wall
below us. Originally 6,000 km long, it still climbs today over
the mountain ranges.
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Our garden in Antigua
with a couple of amaryllis plants that Felix keeps on dividing, so
we have more and more here and some to give. |
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Here is a colourful blessing of the newly paved section of the
market behind our house, attended by hundreds of Mayan women in
typical clothes. Behind the priest, who was blessing baskets
full of vegetables, is the back of our house.
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Jennifer and Helen on
opening day of JennyStar DVD Rentals in our house, February 2006
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October 2004 Venice Again ... Silver
Wedding Anniversary. Our 5th visit. |
Everybody visiting - January 2003
February 2002: on the road to Antigua, with
our new truck
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