Overbooked flights

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Don´t they suck?!!! So yesterday, after more Panamanian Taxi-Trauma, I finally get to the airport only to be told the flight is overbooked, and I´ll have to wait for the same flight the next day. So they taxi´d me back to the City Centre and put me up in th 5 star Riande Continental. Yay.

I felt so out of place, a scruffy traveller in an expensive hotel. Though, to be honest, if I´d been paying for it myself I would have been a little disappointed, I think. And the Christmas pipe organ in the lobby is possibly the world´s most irritating thing. Ever.

Which brings in a nice little topic. Christmas here in Panama is HUGE. There are brightly lit full size nativity displays everywhere, Christmas music wherever you go, and even big lit-up Coca-Cola trucks driving around together (playing music, of course) just like in the advert. There´s no escape.

Not even in Panama Viejo. The original site of the city, before a rampaging Welsh pirate named Henry Morgan went about rampaging, still lies in ruins some way out of the city centre. It was quite interresting to go and see, but, as always, there was a giant nativity scene in front of the old Catherdral tower. Ah well, photos to follow, again. This computer DOES have USB, but my cable is in my bag in storage at the hotel until my taxi comes. Bah.

So, hopefully my next report will be from Buenos Aires. I have my boarding pass already, so things SHOULD be OK. I just need to make sure I don´t lose my hostel reservation....

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Photos

What is that on the left?!
In Casco Viejo

Huh?!
In Casco Viejo

Old Church
In Panama Viejo

Old and New
In Panama Viejo

Cathedral
In Panama Viejo

Nativity
By the cathedral