Days 282 to 293 – Wednesday 28th June to Sunday 9th July 2006
I arrived in Panama City in mid afternoon, and didn’t want to travel out to Penonome that same day so I checked in at Zuly’s, the hostel I stayed at back in February, and caught up with goings on in the World Cup, before heading to Penonome to see Yami the following morning.

Day 255 – Thursday 1st June 2006
Check out was 11am. Come 10.45 we rolled out of bed and quickly tried to pack our things up and leave. I decided that I wanted to go to Cartagena and hang around there for the 10 days until my flight to Panama, so it would be goodbye to the Swedes until much later in the year when we had planned to meet up in England to take in some lash action.

Roy
Yami

Roy
Born in 1980, raised in Suffolk, educated in both Suffolk and Staffordshire, my first backpacking trip began in September 2005 to Latin America, which you can read all about on the other blog. Upon my return to the UK in August 2006, plans were already developing for the next trip – to India and China. However this trip never materialised. During the planning period, along came the offer of a good job in Barbados, and whilst I would have loved to continue travelling, an opportunity to live …