The Bristol Panama

Welcome! In this little (well its getting big now) blog you may read about my trip to Peru! I am a medical student and am supposedly on an elective to learn about medicine here, sadly there are so many other interesting things to do here that I keep ...

Twenty years ago we cycled half way round the world, so we thought we'd better have another go before we get too old to do ANYTHING, let alone cycle! So after 4 months in Europe (the training ground) we hit South India, then a quick hop over the ocean ...

OK well this is my Peru travel blog for 2007. For those who don't know this is part medical elective and part travelling. I am a UK medical student at the Peninsula Medical School in Devon and Cornwall and I am traveling to Peru to work in Cusco. I am ...

I once heard you don't get to decide how you die or when. You can only decide when you're going to live. Now. So in March of 2004, I decided to leave my job making a good living ... to make a good life! After seven years on the road living out of my ...

Mike & Sineads 12 month trip around the world - South America, Central America, New Zealand, Australia, Southeast Asia.

With 19 months' leave from work, a small amount of savings and a wanderlust that I'm sure we share with many of the readers of this blog we are embarking on a loosely planned adventure. We'll be flying to Vancouver, B.C. Canada (Simon's hometown), buying ...

Hello all, This travelogue is from our Latin American adventure. Hope you enjoy, if not please ignore! Feel free to leave us messages on here as we´ll check in regularly and would love to know how you´re all getting on. Take care, Anna & ...

A round the world trip with paying a penny! Well, I was actually paid £9 6s 4p per month plus keep! That was what the shipping company paid me as a Junior apprentice aboard the mv Fleetbank back in 1959. Take no notice of the map dates, by the way! The ...

... while enjoying the view of the bridge of America (and where the boats enter the canal) on one side and the skyline of Panama's skyscrapers in the other direction. Great place for drinks, restaurants, and walking, but not much else. The long walk is ...

...  education but they get a degree in official arrogance. The hotel was another baffling experience. We had had reservations at the Bristol for two months and at the last minute, plans were changed because there is some sort of remodeling either at the ...

... definitely has taken us to a very different environment. We stayed in the hotel last night and enjoyed dinner at the Hotel Bristol.  Determined to continue to try new and exotic foods we shared an appetizer of crocodile crispings in a sweet and ...

... is Sunday so I suppose this is technically Day 4 even though Day 1 was abbreviated at best! We are still at the Bristol Hotel -- kind of hard to get sick of luxurious accomodations!  Last night we walked up the street for dinner at Restaurante ...

... last water taxi back to the main land, shared a taxi to the bus station with a couple of guys who we met before. Another Bristol Uni chap (Its getting ridiculous how many Bristolians we've actually met on the trip!) Then at 7pm the bus to Panama City ...

... to speak Spanish and learn salsa. Fail on both counts, I think. After I'd exhausted my funds on Boca Brava I headed to Panama City. I went with another Bristol grad that I'd met (I'm collecting them - 4 so far!). We flagged down a bus for the 6 hour ...

... had ever done it.  It kind of cracks me up that our first hitchhiking experience was from, essentially, the zoo.   Other Bristol activities included walking a path along the canals for a few miles to a really nice bar (next to a canal bridge!), ...

... of note. One of these was to some nearby hot springs that I went to with some other people from the hostel, including two fellow Bristol grads. The springs were pretty damn hot and we were all sweating and so decided to cool off in the nearby river. Very ...

... nbsp; Unfortunately, there were no rooms available where we wanted to stay but a manager at one of those two Inns suggested the Bristol Hotel (which I had read about in my earlier research and knew that it was topnotch) and she even called ahead for us to ...