12th till 18th of August 2018. Leaving town. If you know that Bucaramanga is the capital and largest city of Santander in Colombia with almost 522,000 inhabitants, you can imagine that we are lucky to have MapsMe which works offline as a route planner to guide us out of the crazy busy city. We first […]
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5th till 11th of August 2018. Lazy Sunday Afternoon. In the beautiful UNESCO town of Mompox, located at the Magdalena riverside, we enjoy a lazy Sunday with a real cappuccino and steak with fries. Colombia has great meat and meat culture; amazing fruits but still needs to discover vegetables. We further discover the city, get […]
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29th of July till 4th of August 2018. Cartagena. After 5 days on the boat discovering the San Blas Islands, our first offshore impression of Cartagena with high rise buildings is not very promising. Is Cartagena the same as Panama city? Are the many of the buildings built for drugs money laundering and standing empty […]
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22nd till 28th of July 2018. Goodbye Panama. Final days in Panama feel like closing a second chapter. Waiting for our boat to Colombia to sail gives us 3 nights at the same spot with limited activity possibilities besides listing to your mind and body. This steers quite some emotions with me while Frank remains […]
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15th July till 21st July 2018.Panama. Panama is the last Central American Country before crossing to South America spinning south. There is a significant difference between all Central American Countries and the closer we get to Panama City the more obvious investments in infrastructure, houses and shopping malls becomes. Is it Panamanian money or multi-national? […]
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1st of July till 14th of July 2018. Borders. One more. Crossing a border makes you wonder why it was created at this spot, why it is there and in the case of Central America, if the boundaries could disappear as in Europe. Fun part of the crossing in Paso Canoas is that the road […]
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24th of June till 30th of June 2018.The benefit of camping is being closer to nature and it is better for the environment and the budget. Saturday nights thunderstorm and downpour cured us of the temptation of being that close. Terrestrial rain. Terrestrial rain and proximity of lightning resulting in a power cut when we were […]
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17th till 23rd of June 2018. The advantage of biking in the rain season is that the sky is clouded much of the time, reducing the scalding sun beating down on you. So much water you see the evergreen forest turning even greener. You almost see leaves/grass/flowers grow where you stand. We won’t talk too […]
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10th of June till 16th of June 2018.Education does not change the world, it changes the people who will change the world. Different in many ways. Biking in Costa Rica is a bliss. We feel suddenly free to go more off-road and discover beautiful, butterfly kissed roads, plains, steep hills and rainforest. Costa Rica is 1.37 […]
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Spinning South. 