We set the alarm because we needed to be at the bus station to buy tickets one hour before departure. It wasn't particularly early, it's just that we're getting lazy after being in the islands. We arrived at the bus station a few minutes before 8am and were shouted on to a bus that was leaving right away - we would just pay for our tickets on board. So much for buying them an hour before but it did mean we would get to Panama City an hour earlier than we anticipa...

We decided that we would skip Santa Catalina. David's shoulder is still not up to surfing and the comments about single day dive trips are quite mixed (and expensive too). We would just head for Panama City and see how far we got... We skipped breakfast so we could take a water taxi to Almirante that would connect with a bus to David. We ended up being in luck because the water taxi arrived early and bus seemed to be late because we made it. It was a proper coa...

We shared a taxi back in to Bocas town with Marina and Daniel. They were leaving the Caribbean to make their way towards Santa Catalina on the Pacific coast. We will be doing the same but wanted to have a day at Playa de las Estrellas before we left. We checked in again at Posada Isla Chica for one more night and managed to get the same room as we had before with the balcony overlooking the street. We dropped our bags in the room, took out our beach gear and...

Whether it's the comfy bed or just the noise of the waves, we slept for ages again and were close to missing breakfast two days in a row. We had a Tesero Club sandwich - ham, cheese and a fried egg on a 'Johnny Cake'. A Johnny Cake turns out to be a bit like a bagel without the hole in it. Tasty enough and quite filling when washed down with a mug of coffee. We walked back to the lodge with the pool we visited on Saturday. Maria wanted to use the pool and David...