Since we have less than a month remaining and are still planning on going to Cuba, we decided that we could not realistically spend a long time in each place we visit. However our new self imposed rule didn`t last long when we got to Bocas and found to our delight that every evening comences with very cheap drinks during happy hour at our hostel. Clearly no-one has yet to realise that selling beer at 25p a bottle to tourists causes a few problems later on in the ...

Not much needs to be said for the three days spend in Panama city trying to recover from some mysterious infection. It mostly involved hiding from the world in a dark hotel room and watching enough American news channels to instill a fear of almost everything, especially vicious man-eating bears, into me. Finally we did leave and made it to Boquete, a small town somewhere in the Panamanian wilderness where it rains every afternoon without fail. At least we had ...

Five in the morning is very early to wake up. In some parts, it´s early even to go to bed, so the San Blas islands had better be worth waking up at this ungodly hour for. They were thankfully, although we only stayed a night on the islands, more happened in that day than would normally occur in a week. After getting a jeep from Panama city to the river to wait for a boat to take us to the islands, we witnessed another jeep speed off the bank and jump into the r...

'Panama, s***, I'm still only in Panama' I thought as I woke up my second day here and looked out my hotel window looking out over the city and saw a helicopter landing on the roof opposite. Our hotel room, littered with beer cans and flooded thanks to some faulty plumbing in the bathroom, slightly resembled Martin Sheen's in Apocalypse Now, short of broken glass and blood stains. On the taxi from the airport to the city, I was greeting with billboards inviting ...