December 31, 2012 New Year is a time for partying! In Panama, any holiday is considered the perfect day to enjoy friends, family, eating, and drinking – lots of drinking. Relatives gather at home to prepare a New Year’s Eve feast. Dinner traditionally includes: Turkey or ham Rice with guandu, a nutritious round green bean Tamales (FYI, Panamanian tamales … Read more
If you are considering moving or retiring to Panama, you may find this helpful. In this video Robin Sare lists his reasons for retiring in Panama. Transcription below Robin and his wife Diana bought their property in Puerto Armuelles Panama about 6 years ago. The last 2 years they have lived here more or less … Read more
December 15, 2012 The Floating Doctors have been running clinics for poor indigenous communities in Bocas Del Toro, Panama for the last 9 months. As a caring group of people, they recently rescued 2 tiny jungle kittens that had been taken by poachers. Here is a link to a blog post about the rescue of … Read more
December 8, 2012 “One of the most important coastal wetlands in the Americas is under threat.” As of May of this year, Panama is allowing development of the upper bay of Panama. Before then, in 2005, Panama had declared it as a Ramsar site. That means Panama publicly acknowledged that Panama Bay is a wetland … Read more
December 8, 2012 Today is Mother’s Day in Panama. December 8th. The whole country takes it off. Government offices are closed. Everyone is off work. Women are awakened at about 4am by being serenaded in the street. To me – at this moment – it seems a punishment to be awaken in this way. … Read more
November 27 2012 Do you Have A Panama Pensionado Visa? Good news. You can now easily get a cedula. Life is much easier in Panama with a cedula. The editor of The Panama Guide, Don Winter, writes this about this new development. “Cool. Now everyone out there who already has a pensionado visa can also … Read more
My daughter, Skylar, and I were invited to tag along on a tour of the banana plantations above Puerto Armuelles. It was conducted by the very personable Claral Richards and Mr. Francisco. Both gentleman were born and raised in Puerto Armuelles. Both worked for Chiquita banana for many years. I hope you enjoy these videos. Click Below […]
Updated: October 2017 The Friendly Nations visa is Panama’s best residency program. The goal of this visa to make it easier for foreigners to live and work in Panama. Once you get a friendly nations visa, you are then eligible to apply for a work permit. In fact they make it easy to do so. It … Read more
I discovered this delightful YouTube video on Panama Guide. It is hysterical, saddening, and encouraging which is pretty impressive for a 3 minute video. Donate and Enjoy. Betsy and Reyn
We lost count of our pineapple plants after 120! Each plant sprouts babies, some as many a 5 or more! We began by just planting the green leafy top off the pineapples that we purchased and ate. We were curious to see the process because we had never seen a pineapple grow. We were told … Read more
September 5, 2012 It took a second or two before we said, “Its an Earthquake!” We were in the midst of watching a battle scene in “The Empire Strikes Back” when it hit. It was a long slow quake. It seemed to go on for quite a bit of time – for an earthquake. No … Read more
August 29, 2012 The free monthly concert series in Boquete Panama is starting again. On the second Sunday of each month there will be a free concert in Boquete. It is put on by the Boquete Jazz & Blues Foundation as a lead up to their annual festival in February 2013. Click for our experience at the 2015 … Read more
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