Today we left Panama – a very hot and sunny Panama, and flew off to Costa Rica — a very cold and wet Costa Rica. Our driver arrived a bit late but eventually turned up and then took us up through the hills to Monteverde where it was pouring, not surprisingly given it’s the rainy […]
Not pirates at all
We arranged for a man with a four wheel drive to take us from the Pacific to the Atlantic, cutting across Panama. We drove through the hills that form the spine of Central America, lush green hills with vegetation piled over vegetation in the way that makes me truly miss the tropics. Then we arrived […]
Three cities
In the morning, we walked across to the fish market, which I had read was the place to have lunch in the city. It was a short walk over very large but quiet roads along the glittering Pacific. The market itself – the wholesale market was being washed down, but along the front was a […]
Canal with a country around it
We are in Panama. As we got off the aeroplane and walked through the bridge to the airport, a fleet of black helicopters roared overhead, a suitable welcome to a very strange country. We are staying in the historic old town, Casco Viejo, a pleasant old place with coloureful ornamented buildings, though a great many […]