Yesterday, I had dinner with Elvis, J.J.’s brother. We went to a genuinely local bar in the open air. It was homely and cheap. As the chicken was my first meal that day – I was so busy since the morning that I didn’t have a chance to grab anything to eat - I devoured it before I sat down at the table. Then, I quickly fell asleep on Tanasza, and Clyde, our rain forest guide, woke me up in the morning. He came to say goodbye and he brought me a beautiful pineapple, which smelled really appetising, for the journey.

We borrowed a car from a native lady and we carried the chain from the yacht to the car (I wouldn’t have been able to do it alone). We packed the canisters and went by car to take the parcel with my new camera – it’ll probably take me a year to learn how to use it :) It’s really nice and, what’s more, red! We stopped on our way at a bakery and we bought a loaf of bread with manioc - Manihot esculenta Crantz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manioc . You could buy there all kinds of bread, even with salted herring!!! Yummy, scrumptious!
 
Later, I arranged many things. I went to say goodbye to the manager of the IGA Marine. I also tried to bag a paper map of Panama, but really there are none! I drove all around the harbour, from yacht to yacht, asking everywhere as they told me in the shop that they had simply run out of them... and nothing! It’s unbelievable that nowadays people use nothing but computers for navigation. And what if there is no electricity, let’s say? (I wonder what Columbus would say about that)
 
I’ve also read such a sentence today: ”chocolate, coffee and man...some things are just better rich” :)