Saving Private Ryan
I’m sorry we are not posting much at the moment but as you might be able to tell from comments in the last post we had a bit of a problem with our security. We are however saving posts which…
Problems
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Overland Discounts San Isidro De Perez Zeledon Costa Rica
As we normally camp and there are no campsites in San Isidro we found a couple of hotels that would let us park and sleep in the car park in our Land Rover. Unfortunately the first one would give no…
Shipping Colombia To Panama
Shipping across the Darian Gap and Globally RoRo or Container. As promised and as I’ve been hounded by the South Africans…..hehe. Shipping agent in Colombia, Cartagena. They don’t speak ANY English at all so expect a strange experience. If you…
Lucky Number Slevin
Thanks to Don for picking up the English strays….His house is a bit nice…..more accurately the garden and pool. We stayed in the pool house.The views over to the Pacific are nothing but breathtaking. In fact on Simien Mountains in…
Copsbent Ones
So here he is. The little ffing copper (quite literally little) who decided to take my passport (copy) and license (fake) off to his little world for some reason.Actually I think the “reason” was we’d misunderstood their limp wrist attempt…
Costa Coffee
You cannot cross into Costa Rica from Panama at Rio Sereno near Volcan. They no longer sell insurance so will not let you into Costa Rica. Its cost us 3 hours at the border checking out and back into Panama.…
Cars 2
We have the car which was a bit of a nightmare. The depot has no ramp to get the car out the container. We used out waffle boards which luckily didn’t break off on the container as the mount point…
Long Kiss Goodbye 600 Days
Its a long time since Solitaire and Apple Pie in Namibia and 300 days. This time its 600 days and we are in Central America. Colon is a bit of a dump but Panama is strange having been in South…
The Terminal
My last post in South America…..hopefully for now at any rate.We are in airport departure lounge which is crap really. Its got nothing so stay outside as long as possible. Just round to the left side of the airport (facing…
Joe Vs The Volcano
No sure what to say here. We went, we “bathed?”, we washed. We enjoyed it. It was 50,000COL each which included dinner. I’ve always wanted to go to one and now I have. Its an experience.I performed some other checks for…
Ticket Out
A bit of info on shipping and a bit of info on air tickets…..AGAIN !A bit more info on the menu of the day…I forgot to say it was soup, main course and drink all for the price. I know some…
June 10th 2013
Some shots of our wander round Cartagena and some of our lunch. Its amazing what 9000COL gets you. Soup and main course and a drink. This is £3.04p which is amazing really. Its been cheaper in other countries but we…
Romancing The Stone
Some photos of where we are staying in Cartagena. You may note there is a car park in front and its big enough for Land Rover or medium truck. The Hotel is 70,000 or $37usd. Its got cable TV, Air-con…
Pirates Of The Caribbean
Today we loaded Matilda in a container. Many hours were wasted. We arrived at 9am at the terminal and didn’t leave till about 5pm. Two hours were taken for them to make a mess inspecting all our belongings. Only I…
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