Category: Panama 2023
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Panama City to Playa Blanca
Two things of note happened after I had posted my blog yesterday. Firstly, we went to an Italian restaurant across the road and while we were eating, there was a bit of a kerfuffle with staff taking photos and being photographed with a good looking man. Assuming he was some sort of sports or film…
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Panama City – day 4. Amador Causeway and Albrook Mall
The Amador Causeway was originally built as a military base, protecting the southern most part of the Panama Canal. It’s now a 6km boardwalk. Obviously it’s not completely pedestrianised (perish the thought) but there are dedicated cycle paths and walking tracks and not much traffic uses it (it’s a dead end) so it’s a pleasure…
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Panama City – day 3. The Pipeline Trail
Managed to sleep until 6.30am – jet lag is done. Today was the day of the pipeline walk and possibly visiting the canal, depending on time. The pipeline trail is a 17 kilometres jungle pathway. During WWII, a petroleum pipeline and its service road were built across the isthmus of Panama. The pipeline was never…
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Panama City – Day 1 Metropolitan Natural Park
One of the massive positives of our trip to South Africa was no jet lag. I had forgotten the joys of being wide awake at 4am despite managing to stay awake well past 10.30pm. Having said that, jet lag is getting easier to handle as these days my mind quite enjoys waking in the middle…
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Panama Prattlings
Why Panama? Why not? American expats seem to like it, along with quite a few others who enjoy it for its generous tax advantages. I’ve heard the money there is unusually clean too. In my mind, I see it as a more built up Costa Rica, all the same wildlife and geography with the added…
Middle-aged flash packers 