A Day Trip to the Caribbean
Sounds impossible right? After being locked down in Panama city for so many months, then stumped by endless difficulties getting number plates for our imported American car, it sounded like a serious break for freedom, which we were delighted to take! Less than 2 hours on the road took us from Panama’s high-rise modernity on the Pacific, all the way to the low slung, laid back Caribbean. With colourful, rundown buildings, ruined forts and beautiful little coves, it felt like another world entirely.
Continue readingOur Stolen Summer. Part 2: Flying back to England.
Flying home from Panama to London was as normal as it could be, given we were on a humanitarian flight during a global pandemic. As months of confinement in a hot and humid, strange new city dropped away under the clouds, I felt giddy with relief to be going home for a bit, to visit my Mum and Dad by the sea. But also, filled with gathering sense of foreboding…
Continue readingOur Stolen Summer. Part 1: Escape from Panama!
So we’re back to Panama after two months away, after what felt like some serious bunking off. You know that delicious sneaky feeling of making time, being somewhere you are not supposed to be, with people you are not supposed to see. First horses, then boys, now I’m sneaking back home to see my eldery parents. Funny how things change.
Continue readingOur first bike ride in 3 months
Last week, total quarantine lifted for the first time in about 75 days here in Panama, and the children were allowed outside. Only between 4 and 7pm, but still! How exciting it was going to be! And hot! We went for a family bike ride and I felt about as wobbily as my six year old actually was on her bike.
Feeling Flat in Florida
My husband’s job has taken us from living in the Caribbean to Florida where we’ve been since February. As we arrived, his job relocated its HQ to Panama (the country, not the city in Florida!) so we are yet again packing up to go. But I have to confess it’s a bit of a relief to be leaving; the flatness of Florida has been getting to me… Continue reading
Going NUTS in Barbados
Everything is expensive in Barbados. Excluding turquoise waters and breath-taking sunsets, of course, which is how we all remain sane. But an actual bag of nuts? Enough to actually make you count out 6 for a snack. But I did recently find sanctuary – and reasonably priced cashews – at a little shop called The Nut Place….
Zooming into Spanish lessons with Baselang.com
For the last 6 weeks, I have been learning Spanish online with Baselang.com. For a flat rate of $129 USD a month, I have had unlimited hours of very professional teaching – video calling Venezuela for lessons online! 37 hours to be exact, which seems like fantastic value for money. What’s it been like learning Spanish by Zoom? Conocer más…
