It was a Friday March 13th, the last day before our break from construction started, to allow the recently poured roof to dry. We were happy that after 4 weeks of construction we weren’t going to have a crew around for the next while. We’d have the whole place for ourselves. And although we had…
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Hoppy Alpaca Hostel
Hermits no more
It was a crazy 2019! We had this blog post drafted last year and never posted it. Better late than never! First Keg event at home So as Roger started ripping apart the mini-fridge for a kegerator, he made space inside for our very first keg. EVER. It was an experimental Saison-like-thing Roger had played…
Beer Love Continues
A few months back we went to Colombia on vacation. We had an amazing time. Hopefully sometime soon we will have a chance to write up a post about that. Here is a sneek into what went down: View this post on Instagram A typical picture of us. We found a tienda in Las Flores…
Why did we want to open a hostel?
This past month has been a reminder about why the idea of opening up a hostel even occurred to us. Both of us have had our share of travelling stories as we have both travelled independently, with family or friends, winging it, or following a tightly timed schedule or staying at a resort, all of…
2018 in review … a bit late
So last year it was pretty busy, as we were not only still under construction, but Roger started brewing and selling more beer. Malena was also super busy with work and between the two of us, we were not making time for ourselves as individuals or as social beings, and even as a couple. It’s…
The luxury of an en-suite shower.
We finally have hot water flowing through our Calefon So halfway through September and we’ve finally got our calefon, which means hot water in the hostal!! This has been a long time coming. Getting the calefon came with a bunch of drama. I wish this was new drama, but actually it’s the same old. Crew…
Make it tasty. All else is secondary.
World Cup Fire Drill Fishing Excursion The tournament of Stop Drop and Roll is finally over! So we’ve been catching the games online, and it’s been…. hard to stay focused on anything else. It’s been exciting. Some serious craziness and unexpected excitement and disappointment. Especially watching countries like Croatia and Belgium take all the big…
Athena Homebrew…. coming soon!
Main construction finally done! So the brewery space is finally done! No more crew to feed everyday! We are pretty happy with how it turned out. Tiles are pretty, paint is nice and bloody expensive. The reason it IS so bloody expensive is that it’s a government mandated epoxy paint for food safety and necessary…
Realizations and Ambitions
The hostel building is nearly done, but we delayed proceeding because we decided to finish up the brewery so we didn’t have construction while we had guests. So this is basically construction phase 2. Slowly but surely we’re getting everything into place. It’s nice to see it however slowly. Being our own project managers We…
Sense of Purpose, and Grass
We’ve been here for over a year now!! It’s hard to believe it’s already been over one year since we’ve been here. Last year around this time we were finally getting our container delivered to our house. Which meant finally getting a fridge and other things we took for granted after living without them for…