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CA Travels Day 20 – Pollo Campero

Posted by Dave Hill | Filed under general

It felt kind of strange to me to be getting ready to leave after three weeks, so it’s hard to imagine what it must’ve been like for the others, after three months!  We had a last meal out in Antigua with Annie and said our goodbyes, since we were heading back to Guatemala City ready for the journey home the next day.

Me and Claire spent an hour playing backpack Tetris, trying to tessellate gifts and garments in a way that would make it humanly possible to carry everything.  We took a taxi to Guatemala City and returned to a hostel we visited on the first day to pick up some belongings we’d stored there.

Pollo Campero, mi amigo!

Over the last three weeks, we’d eaten lots of traditional Guatemalan food, but there’s only so many tortillas, avocados, and piles of mashed fucking beans I can enjoy!  There’s something else that Guatemalan people eat a lot of too that we were yet to experience, and that’s Pollo Campero, a massive chain of fast food places, similar to KFC, and the largest food chain in Latin America.  The staff wear uniforms in primary colours, the tables feel clinical and the signs have photos of deep fried chicken, with supersize meal offers splashed all over them.  So everything felt like KFC then, until they asked us to sit down and wait for table service!  I guess it’s not a big deal but it felt really strange.  Other differences include the chicken being better (!), the ketchup is worse and you get hot sauce instead of mustard.  Nice!

I was feeling a bit ill and went to bed at 9:30 to get some rest before the long, long journey home the next day.