Day off in David, Panama - Bike Touring in Central America
After arriving in the town of David, Panama, I decided to take a few days off. Here's what I got up to when staying at the Purple House in David, Panama.
Resting at the Purple House
Blog post written: April 16th 2010
With the supermarket being so great, and access here to a kitchen in The Purple House, it was a wonderful day off!!
Tinned ravioli, boiled eggs, salad, corned beef... endless treats !! I was so busy doing not a great deal, I failed in my mission to get the laundry done, but nobody's perfect.
A little later on, two other cyclists turned up, who are cycling from Mexico to Argentina... here's their blog. http://www.caminolatino.wordpress.com . And here: Their blog update in Panama.
As always, it was great to swap cycling stories and hints. They are also planning to get a boat to Colombia, which I decided to try to organise the next day.
In the evening, I was not entirely sure that I was complimented, when I was told that I looked like Beckham and the twins from Bros.
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Dave is a UK travel writer living in Athens since 2015. With 20 years of firsthand travel experience and over 80,000 km of bicycle touring across six continents, he's been blogging at Dave's Travel Pages since 2005. Every guide is based on places he's actually been.
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