Hotel Santa Isabel

We cut the drive to Portugal up with a stop over at Puerto Sherry near Cadiz. Very pleasantly surprised, the hotel room overlooked the marina and had a huge balcony. Took a walk and came across some lovely beaches with old ruins. Nice dinner and a bottle ...

... ejects boiling hot water in torrents, which a local hotel has kindly redirected into a series of pools of varying temperatures. The hotel has also kindly constructed a series of cocktail bars just next to these pools (and actually in one of them), and ...

... it gets the ¨capital¨ title is that the only government building and one of the airstrips is located there. There´s also a hotel and a couple of restaurants. We also took the opportunity while on a populated island to buy some handicrafts. The Kuna ...

... :( So Orlando told me to get some lunch, as in the hotel they where not prepared so there would be no lunch at the hotel. After my lunch I met a German sailor who told me that the weather was the worst in a 100 years. The Panama canal was closed for the ...

... a corner of the island. I made some nice photos and went back to my accommodation and started another book, Afke found it in the hotel here the book is called "Mijn Vrijhied - Ayaan Hirsi Ali (ISBN 90-457-0112-x)". It's about a former dutch politician who ...

... ready in 10 minutes.. So I went to the other side of the "road" and got a bread with cheese and a sausage for breakfast. In this hotel/lodge 3 meals a day are included in the price and every day a boat trip to an island. So that's not bad for USD$ 40.00. ...

... other two backpackers who came along were ori, from israel, and thomas, from switzerland. we met ori while staying at the hotel doral in cartagena. we found thomas around the corner in another hostel, planning to take a different boat. but he was the ...

... find a room.  As exhausted as I was, I couldn't imagine how tired they were!  I found a great little room at the Hotel Casa Colonial and, still swaying a bit from the boat, fell into the bed! Before I took this trip, I had heard several, ...

... parts.  A little un-nerving, but--half asleep--I was able to keep my faith.  Twenty-seven hours after setting sail, we arrived in Cartagena.  Our top priorities upon arrival: checking into a hotel with AC, cooling off, and getting a shower! ...

On my first night in Cartagena I met a Spanish guy on the bar/terrace of our hotel and we started talking. I had previously heard about the San Blas Archipelago off the coast of Panama as being paradise on earth and was planning to see if I could fit it ...

... after Mariah and I had the opportunity to take some “real” showers and lounge in the pool of their Panama City hotel.  Both were much needed; Thanks guys! With more days than desired to wait for our own Panama Canal transit, we ...

... a smart man. FINALLY 48 hours after our planned departure we sailed to El Porvenir. El Porvenir is an airstrip, a grass hut bar/restaurant/hotel, and a grass hut in which to stamp passports plus enough sand to keep it all about a foot about sea level. We ...

... anchored just off the island El Provenia and made reservations for the empty restaurant that was connected to the sold-out hotel. Strange. . . Where were they all eating? The island was fitted with the tiniest airplane runway which we naturally had to ...

... outside of the church, playing with her belly button.  This temporarily made me forget about the pain of missing out on the Isabel pastries.   I needed to return the rental car at 10:30, but my ferry wasn't scheduled to depart until ...

... was a little surprised and said "Oh, your Italian is very good!". Her voice ... I just realized that it was similar to Isabel's! Damn! Maybe she is named Isabella, and is the Italian equivalent!!! Guess I'll have to trek all the way back to Sardinia ...