Panama

When it is time to escape the tranquillo life style and see something more metropolitan, good choice is to go visit Panama city. With an average GDP per capita of $11,700, Panama has been among the top places for retirement in the world. Panama City has a dense skyline of mostly highrise buildings, and it is surrounded by a large belt of tropical rainforest.


Republic of Panama is well known of its main income, the canal, which has been operative sinceo 1914. The canal can be reached from Panama city easily by getting a cab and by asking an offer for the price in advance. You should be able to negotiate the price down under 20 dollars pretty easily. Canal itself is a place to visit at least once in a lifetime for everybody.


After a day spent with shopping on Avenida Española and Albrook mall visitors should check attractions next to city limits. Metropolitan national park offers nice variation of walking trails including wildlife from titi monkeys to exotic birds. Taxi from city center to Metropolitan park should cost around 5 dollars.


Isla Tagoba and Casco Vieho (the old town) are also something to concider by tourist visiting Panama city. Isla Taboga serves those who want to enjoy day at the beach, and Casco Vieho serves those who want to rest their eyes in seeing beautiful buildings and enjoy exotic tastes found from local fish market.


There are many tours visitors can take from local hotels, but as a real highlight of a vacation tourists should visit Lago Bayano, and the project with many features offered by local entrepreneur Antonio Mojica.


In lago Bayano visitors can enjoy real Panamian nature by horse back riding, boat or hiking. Especially indian villages located on the area are attractions which can win visitors heart.

By boat tourists can reach exiting places like caves, canjon rivers, and much much more. Go check http://lakebayano.com/bayanoadveng.html and enjoy your vacation!

If you need to escape

What are the best ways to go explore other islands and countries located in the area? What if you need to escape back to Europe!!! Simple questions and five tips to be shared as an answer for transport solutions:

1. Go explore by Copa Airways www.copaair.com

- Copa Air is the largest airline operating in Latin America. You can especially find flights to South America. Copa operates mainly from Panama, so usually transit pasanger do their thing in Tocumen airport (Panama city) to reach destinations like Equador, Guatemala, Honduras etc. Love it! I use copa to fly elswhere from Santiago, D.R.

2. Try air Cubana www.cubana.cu

- Cheapest way to go check the health status of Fidel. Direct flights from Santiago and Santo Domingo to f.ex. Havanna.

3. Enjoy Air Berlin services! www.airberlin.com

- Fast way to Europe and even from Bavaro up to mighty Finland. Really good service, reasonable prices and exellent time tables. Air Berlin operates every two days from Puerto Plata to Germany.

4. Fly cheap with Jet Blue to US. www.jetblue.com

- Direct flights from Puerto Plata to Miami and New York. This airline also once hired the most famous flight attendant, Steven Slater! Google him!

5. Try Iberia direct flight from Santo Domingo to Madrid. www.iberia.com

- Explore the European accent of spanish in mother land of latin temper.

So why did I wanted to share all this with you? Of course I had vacation between Christmas and New Year! Me and my wife escaped to Panama with Copa Air to explore natural wonders, and what ever other things that are totally different to my current work among mobile services.

And of course one point of being public is that I wanted to share a picture of me comparing my belly size with one of the mighty giants of the local rain forest. Still going strong! Or what do you think?


We have had really nice vacation in Panama. The city has offered it all... lots of Pellados, eye candy, new year celebrations and good food. I recommend this place to all hitch hiking heroes wondering the globe. For families this Metropol might be too much compared to lovely hometown Sosua, D.R. Or atleast book your hotel from nice resort outside of the vortex called Panama city.

Team to open first mobile content sales in DR

After two years of struggling the moment has become close. We will open first mobile content service in the island. So let me introduce our high tecnology team working alongside with me after dealing with all "comission beggers" and wrestling with the byrocracy.



Tobias will be our country manager, and responsible to open also services in Venezuela. He has three kids and he has been living in DR almost all of his life. Tobias will take care of major clients like Coca Cola, Brugal and several magazines from now on.



Enrique will be dealing with content rights and is also responsible for delivering services to Brazil and Argentina. Enrique will be responsible to take care of content rights like Aventura, Anthony Santos etc. This Bachata specialist will showcase the island also some Merengue ring tones!

Night out with friends from Holland

In Sosua it is pretty easy to make friends. In the image above you can see me and my father getting known to a great person called Jos from Holland. Jos and his wife Tanja are football fans and so the night was full of Litmanen, Van Der Vaart etc. Actually I was lucky enough to wear a camiseta (T-Shirt) of FC Barcelona carrying number 10 in my back. So the shirt I wear belongs to mighty Jari Litmanen who is known to all football speaking world.



My father enjoyed cicars with Jos and they were singing probably all known singalongs from "O-Lay-o-lay-o-lay-o-lay We are the champs" to "Elvis".

Thank you for the wonderful evening Jos and Tanja. I hope we will see again soon. Also extra thanks and greetings belong to the owner of the Cuba Libre bar called Fred. You had made yourself nice birthday arrangements!!

Little fixes

Hello all Bloggers,

after year of silence I´m back to the island of thousand stories. But before entering any delightful details I´ll share a blog post of first preparations after returning to a house where no-one has been living for a year.

The first shopping list contained basic grosseries and helpful goods:

Water, bread, cheese, pasta, minced meet, ham, juice, milk, coffee, vegetables etc. I also prepared on the future by buying huge quatities of cleaning gear including toilet paper. Those we got from local super market Playero.

Dogs got their welcome backage, so Gina and Chichi received their footballs and some tasteful snacks. The third dog we still have called Pubi has become a street dog and he doesn´t seem to want to enter the house anymore. He still understands my signals and comes to say hello from time to time and does join us to the morning walk on the beach. Anyways he is either in love with neightbour labradorian or just wants to show he is 100% independent.

During the year away our fourth dog Picky had gone missing. Our gardener Andy had put up some missing dog signs, but it seems that dog either found a new home or has entered the dog heaven. We will miss you Picky and will keep searching for you!

First days here have been totally hulabaloo... I have fixed our third toilet pot, been cleaning the pool, called house maid Micaela to help us, fixed some plumming, got new cable TV box, fixed the car, changed light pulbs and now ordered a local street guy to fix all woodwork that had been grilling under hot Caribean sun.

This work is ongoing and therefore this means also additional trips to Santiago and Santo Domingo. I´ll keep you posted on how things keep settling down for us. Go get a good grip on the chair where you sit and keep staring at the display. More updates are soon to be published!

Blog is on hold

Thanks for reading my posts. I will be offline for some time now from Blogger, but you can find me from Facebook. I will update there all my interesting adventures in Dominican Republic. Also join my Facebook friend list to see more!

What is a tortilla in spanish?

I was having tortillas (=Read after this Burritos) with my spanish teacher Enrique a couple of days ago. The night actually started the way that Enrique asked me: "What are we going to eat tonight?" My responce to his question was: "Tortillas". After the word "Tortilla" had been exposed he had a weird grim in his face...Half laughing and half desperation.

The night continued and we started eating in one point. After awhile I asked Enrique: "How is your Tortilla?"... Enrique experienced somekind of shock, and almost spit a mouthfull of food back to his plate! He lauhghed at me: "Don´t you know what Tortilla means?!?"

Well I bet all you blog readers who are not spanish specialist don´t know the answer!

And the answer is... In spanish speaking countries word tortilla means that there are two ladies making a hamburger type of structure of themselves... So a kind of a love affair!

No more Tortillas for me, I am just ordering Burritos!