Deville Hotel Panama City
50 este Panama City, 0832-0172, Panama
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Overrated
... canal, and we grabbed a cab back to Panama, stopping for lunch at a local dive popular with the lunch crowd. The rainy weather continued, with a downpour lasting for a few hours, stranding me back at the hostel. Once it let up, I was able to pop over to a local French bakery, where it subsequently started pouring again. I can't say that the weather negatively affected my experiences in Panama so far - really, there isn't ...
Pirates and Other Adventures
... a great contemporary art gallery, lunched on crazy cheese-smothered lasagne and risotto on the marina, wandered back to town slowly and ate a long leisurely dinner at Limoncillo, a lovely Italian restaurant in the newer part of town. The staff are so lovely here - in fact all over South America the customer service has been amazing - the food is good but maybe not excellent and the dessert ...
An Unfortunate Reality
... Most of them wouldn’t even talk to us about Colon; they wanted to take us right into Panama City for $60 or $70. Finally we found someone who agreed. For $8 – in his pickup truck. Yes, there was Ric************na, Thelma and Louis, downgraded from 4.5 luxurious stars to An Unfortunate Reality. Like falling out of a dream and landing face first in the mud.
As the taxi stopped at the bus station pandemonium was ...
October 17-24
... of fellow Indians. He told me about the many trips to India he's taken, one of which involved driving all the way to Bombay from Belgium. Fascinating stories that reminded me what a plain and scripted life I've led in comparison.
I had an excellent return visit/study on a lady I've been calling on since may. She was very bothered because a woman she knows found out she has cancer. She told me that this woman is a very good person and she can't understand why ...
Culture Shock
... ago. The French had a huge influence in Panama back then. They chose this part of the land because there is water on 3 sides. They built a huge wall around the city to avoid being attacked by land when the tide was low. Now, Casco Viejo is pretty run down. The buildings of the city are absolutely beautiful, but completely run down. Some have been completely destroyed. The country is spending money trying to renovate it. But it's a huge, very expensive task that is going to take decades to ...



