Day ten

We havent been doing a lot of traveling or exploring while we are in Antigua, but on day ten we went on a tour of a coffee finca (plantation) called Finca Filidelfia. We got to see the plant nursery, which was filled with tiny little coffee plants not even half a foot high, and it takes around eight months for them to grow to be around a foot tall. Most of the coffee grown in this finca is a mix of arabica stalks and robusta roots, which combines the strongness and bitterness of the robusta with the lightness of the arabica to make a perfect blend of coffee. We got to see the mature plants, and picked some of the red beans and ate the coffee beans inside (they were really sweet and a little bit slimey, which shocked all of us). After that, we toured the actual place where they turn the white slimey coffee beans into the dark brown roasted coffee beans that everyone is used to. We had free samples of the coffee, and I had one of the most amazing espressos ever. We came back to the hotel at around lunchtime, ate, and then went back to work in our classes (after watching the Spain vs Netherlands game, of course).