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El Tunco Revisited
Hello again, A lot of new stories have piled up, but I’ll start chronologically. In November, we returned to El Salvador (we had already been there a year ago with Sheldon, Annick, and their daughters) and went back to our favorite spot — a small surf town called El Tunco. A charming place by the…
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Finding Ourselves in Panama…
Practically two months have passed since we arrived in Panama.A lot? A little? I’m not sure… but definitely enough to have some thoughts from the perspective of someone living here, not just visiting. That makes a huge difference. When we travel, we eat in restaurants and spend 2–3 weeks disconnected from everyday life and responsibilities.…
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The Caribbean Side of Panama Canal
We’ve recently visited the other side of Panama — the Caribbean coast. Our original plan was to go to Colón, the second-largest city in the country, with a population of around 200,000 people. We wanted to see the sandy Playa Sherman beach on the western side of the canal. We started our trip at the…
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Gamboa
Last weekend we spent in the middle of the Panamanian jungle, in the place where the Panama Canal meets the Chagres River, the only river in the world that empties into two oceans. The place is called Gamboa Rainforest Reserve. Originally established as a canal zone settlement in the early 20th century, Gamboa was once…
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A Lot is Happening!
We’re still in the middle of organizing our stay here, and the emotions swing from one extreme to the other. There is great excitement and joy when, sitting with a coffee on the terrace and looking at the ocean and palm trees, we feel like we’re on vacation. Victor, before school or during his lunch…
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Wheels in Panama
For the first two weeks we either used a rental car or Uber. Uber is cheap, accessible, and generally a much better option than taxis, which are usually smaller, in worse mechanical condition, and driven by the worst possible drivers you can imagine. With Uber, though, we ran into two main problems. First, the AC…
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#1 Arrival to Panama 30th Aug
The Flight Seventeen hours on a Turkish Airlines A350 carried us across the Atlantic. Jet-lagged and bleary-eyed, we bundled into an Uber bound for Costa del Este, where an Airbnb apartment was waiting for us, booked for sixteen days. The Airbnb On paper, it looked flawless. The listing showed a high-floor apartment with sweeping views,…
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Prelude
Before boarding our final flight to Panama, another journey awaited us moving Maja into her new home in The Hague, where she would spend the next three years. On Thursday, 21st of August, we packed up our life in Eysins, loading box after box into a VW Crafter hired through a Polish bus company. By…