Walking the line
Me walking the (equatorial) line. Click on the image to see my Ecuador album.
We didn’t really want to go to Ecuador. Although it was somewhere I’d seen on a documentary as a child and wanted to visit in a vague, ‘that’s a faraway place’ kind of way, we’d both been seriously put off the place as we’d heard pretty much nothing but bad stories about it. We had looked into flying over it, in the same way that we had avoided the bandit-heavy desert in Mexico, but flights were too expensive here – they can be worthwhile and sometimes even cheaper than taking a (decent) bus internally, but as soon as you cross international borders by plane here the price shoots up. So, we braced ourselves and headed off in the taxi towards the Colombia / Ecuador border. Continue Reading »
Panama: close but no cigar
Panama City - the Miami of Central America? Click on the image for more.
We had the option of a super shuttle to Bocas del Toro, some islands off the coast just over the border in Panama, but we decided a) to go straight to Boquete which sounded nice and b) man up and take the public bus. Continue Reading »
Costa Richer
Red frog in Costa Rica. Click on the picture for more.
Hello again. I wrote this post sat outside our room in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, having returned from a most civilised bike ride to a botanical garden just outside the small town. Continue Reading »
