Santa Catalina has been absolutely incredible. I could live here. In fact point at pretty much anywhere in Panama and I'd probably quite happily live there too. But Santa Catalina is a bit special really. It's so chilled with a lovely vibe to it. I was expecting chill time but there's actually stuff to do [...]
You can tell by the plethora of dive shops in Santa Catalina that making bubbles under the sea is the done thing here, or more specifically an hour boat ride away at Coiba National Park. I wasn't sure what to expect, I'd been told the diving was worth the eye-watering price tag but to be [...]
After six hours of travel we pretty much spent our first afternoon in Santa Fe trying to locate places we could eat without bankrupting ourselves. We couldn't find anywhere to stay with a kitchen (we found out after that there are at least two hostels with kitchens, just not on the booking apps) so we [...]
It was a three bus mission to get from Farallón to El Valle but it was, surprisingly, a piece of piss, if you consider being crammed onto a minibus for half an hour a piece of piss. The bus that took us from the Farallón turn off to Las Uvas looked full but they magicked [...]
I fucking hate sand. Tiny little particles of evil that get into all of your holes without an invitation. Ugh. My butt crack chaffs just thinking about it. I fucking love beaches though so you figure that one out if you can. Clearly I'd much rather have a lovely sunbed to keep me away from [...]
Panama City, we are in you! And as Panama is on the North American continent that's officially it, seven out of seven! Just don't go inventing any more continents please, science. My bank balance can't handle it. We arrived at a very respectable hour on the Sunday but I was the kind of tired where [...]
We'd already booked our flights out of Bolivia but we gave ourselves plenty of time to see and do the things we really wanted to before we needed to make our way to Santa Cruz. That meant we had a week to kill so we decided to kill it in Sucre, the White City, because [...]
There isn't a huge amount to do in Potosí but it's definitely worth wrapping your eyeholes around for a couple of nights. Even just one night if you fancied. The main draw here is the tour of the mines, you could stay the night, get on a morning tour, then bugger off in the afternoon [...]
Since I became a postie I'm much better at getting up at hours even the sparrows would raise an eyebrow at. The trick is to actually go to bed at a reasonable hour rather than cruising through on three hours sleep and expecting to function without drooling on your own shoes. The wine helped. It [...]
Shitting hell, it was a lot colder today than it had been. Actually the whole trip had been warmer than the last time I did this tour. Last time I remember wearing all of my clothes to bed and burying myself under layers of blankets to avoid freezing to death. This time I was in [...]
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