Hola chicos Spent the last few days wandering the streets of Panama City. Very modern with a heavy American influence (of course). Yesterday we spent a few hours watching the famous Panama canal in action. Its surprising how busy the canal is, generating over 500 million USD each year. The boats pay on a weight basis and yesterday the highest paying vessel, paid 206,000USD to pass through the canal. We were more interested than we thought actually and ended up ...

Hola Todos,We have just arrived in Panama City after spending a full week sailing on a 37 foot yacht called Fenicia from Cartagena, Colombia. We had a very crazy Italian captain called Fabio who yelled commands in very pigeon English such as `put hand up stop` which meant `to put your hand above the switch´. He also insisted on cooking pasta for every meal (which was actually fantastic) and would dance around to very strange italian songs in his underwear d...