Courtyard Panama City

... the last launch over to the island. We wont leave it so long to visit next time!<br>So we stayed at Gran Bahia Hotel, pretty pricey for what we got , but it was at the end of town so hopefully not too noisy. Walked around town and settled on dinner at 'the pirate", Franchesca wanted patacones and seemed to be the only place in town that made them.Well she got her dinner but through a misunderstanding nothing for me! We walked a couple of hotels down and I got something elsewhere.<br ...

... Walker Red on the rocks for me and a rum and coke for my friend, free of charge. Next was the warm meal, nothing fancy, but it filled me up and didn't taste bad. We both remarked at how embarrassing it was that on our 3 hour flights we can offer a coke or burnt coffee, nothing else. Its a shame how American air travel has come to lag so far behind the rest of the world, though we were the ones who started it all back in 1903 ...

... there's an ocean pouring out of the sky! We ran to the car and literally were soaked through! That's apparently what its like in the tropics<br><br>Spent the weekend driving to various beaches - on Saturday we went down to a place called Coronado on the Pacific side. Really nice stretch of beach, although the waves were too big to swim, so we spent most of the time in the pool with the kids<br ...

... to walk around the absolute ghetto and take shitloads of photos. Not smart I hear plenty of people say, but I bet your the same people commenting on facebook at how good those very photos turn out! Not stupid enough to take the SLR camera though, old pocket size will have to do! If it gets stolen Im not really that fussed. Fingers crossed<br>Checked into the hostel and head out for a walk armed with the SLR, something I didnt think was the best idea. Managed to be told all ...

... we were practically on top of each other). There was some crew on our ship who were waving Panamanian flags and whose family came out to watch us sail by. We squeezed through the Miraflora Lock (#1) and the other one (#2 - can't remember the name), and watched aligators and other living things while in the lake in between. It sounds kinda boring in describing it here, but it was actually pretty exciting, and emotionally moving. One ...

... var for noen faa aar siden et av de verste stroekene i byen. Men kanalen var absolutt verd et besoek, og det var imponerende aa se hvordan de gigantiske skipene kom seg gjennom dockene! Etter altfor mange dager i storbyer var det tid for litt action igjen... 3 dager ...

... and the large Panamanian flag that can be seen from quite a distance. The views were as good as they said and we soaked them in for a while before walking down again. Later in the day we took a taxi to the Miraflores locks of the canal. It is set up nicely for tourists and there is a lot to see and do. We paid $8 each for the complete package which includes the viewing area at the ...

Wir haben uns für ein paar Tage an d** Karibikküste Panamas entschieden. Uns** Hostel organisi**t den Transport zum San Blas Archipel. Als wir 5 uhr morgens vor uns**em Hostel stehen warten 2 autos auf uns und da Rafas Magen mal wied** v**rückt spielt, haben wir entschlossen dass ** mit dem guten und ich mit dem schlechten Auto fährt. Zu meinem Bedau**n ist mein Auto ein Pickup ohne und ich meine ohne Profil auf den R ...

... a main drag, had an awesome seafood dinner (our last one of the trip!), and then searched for some live music. We ended the night having some drinks at a huka bar, and reflecting back on all the things we've done over the last 100 days. It's pretty incredible that we're STILL travelling. We're still on the same trip we started back in early August. When we left, Michael Phelps was in the middle of his Olympic run, and Barack Obama had just ...