I’ve held back to long. I need to write about what has brought more joy to the expats in Antigua, Guatemala than when El Muro started paying people to imbibe.

Rather than fill this post with unwanted ajectives and annoying ‘-lys’ that my delight in it would cause, I’ll give you just to stoic  facts, straight out of the a FB chat with Dean.

Once upon a time Dean Kremlin was bar-tending in Antigua, Guatemala’s Reilly’s Irish Pub. As he was sighing, thinking about how his home of Northern Irland was being forced to take body shots off England, the barback, Pitu mentioned that he’d given Dean’s number to a friend of his who was looking for models.

Later that week a man rang Dean and asked him to come over so that he could take pictures of him. Then Dean did what Lonely Planet would not recommend, he showed up at the address the unknown man on the phone had indicated. The man dressed Dean in a suit and took pictures of him. Dean swears that’s all that happened.

To the dissapointedment of a few and relief of most, Dean’s body was not thrown into the river. But after he returned people starting seeing Dean everywhere. By my estimates the incidence of Dean spotting has increased up 5,000%. And that rate is increasing.

To date Dean has appeared in magazines, he’s advocated numerous causes, is on a menu of Cafe Sau, he is on a billboard outside the capital’s busiest shopping center, Miraflores. One day, as Dean was reading the national newspaper, he saw himself peaking at him from behind the pages. Dean was, everywhere. In an effort to raise awareness of Dean, some Guatemalan women between the ages of 20-22 now refuse to buy products that Dean does not endorse.