Casco Viejo is Panama's Old Town although it's not the original city. The original city was about 10km east and destroyed by Pirate Morgan in 1671. The city was re-founded in 1673 inCasco Viejo.

We took the metro to Cinco de Mayo in the Caledonian district. It wasn't the nicest part of town and theneighbouring residences were bordering on being slums. It was only a few minutes walk down the main road, and definitely not one you would do at night, down to the fish market. Maybe Monday was a slow day or we were a bit late but only half the stations in the fish market had any fish to sell. Around the corner, in theharbour there were plenty of small fishing boats.

We walked across the street intoCasco Antiguo, the Old Quarter. It was mostly narrow streets with two or three storey buildings. A lot of work has been carried out recently to rejuvenate the area with mixed results. There is some delapidated housing sitting next door to very expensive arty furniture stores for example.

On the way back to the metro, we stopped at the fish market so David could try some mixed ceviche - a combination of fish, octopus and calamari, it was good but not amazing.

We took the metro to Albrook which not only has the main bus station for Panama City, it has the Albrook Mall. We thought the mall we were in the other day was big - this is really big, biggest in Central America in fact and 12th biggest in the world. It has 12 zoned entrances and areas and employs over 10,000 people (the same amount of people working on the Panama Canal). Despite having over 550 stores, all we bought was a coffee and a doughnut.

We had a late dinner at La Tasca de Durán, a Spanish tapas restaurant. A small selection of Patacones rellenos and some little chorizo sausages cooked in Jerez sherry washed down with ice cold beer was delicious.