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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 2. Casco Viejo and Ancon Hill
Today we decided to explore the old town in Panama City, known here as Casco Viejo. It’s important not to confuse it with Panama Viejo which are the ruins of the original Panama city that was destroyed by the Welsh pirate, Henry Morgan. Casco Viejo is the not quite so old new town built to…
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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…
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Into Africa Final Thoughts
Our journey home was long but uneventful. The weather is freezing here but clear and frosty, perfect festive weather. We were dropped off by our cabbie at 6am. We had an interesting conversation with him on the way as he asked why didn’t British white people look after their parents the way his culture did?…
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Tegula Falls Gorge Hike – Northern Drakensberg
It wasn’t the best of starts. We strolled up to the dining room for breakfast at 8am when Mike our guide greeted us and told us our lunch packs were ready for our hike today. We thanked him and then continued our course towards breakfast at which point Mike seemed quite surprised and informed us…
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Northern Drakensberg -Rain stops play
It poured with rain last night, luckily these thatched roofs are very weatherproof. It felt cosy being safe inside while the elements went wild outside. A wet and miserable morning meant a change to the itinerary. We would no longer be visiting the camel’s hump but instead would be walking to Sungabala Camp. Sungabala Camp…
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Cathedral Peak to Northern Drakensberg
Yesterday saw us move on from Cathedral Peak to the northern area of the Drakensberg mountains – our final stop before returning home. We enjoyed our stay at the Cathedral Peak hotel, other than someone denting our car in the car park and not owning up to it. Annoying. Our journey took us back through…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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