As Peter, Paul and Mary said . . .

. . .  ‘I’m leaving on a jet plane’ . . . ‘All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go’.

After months of intense project planning, monthly, weekly and finally daily check-point meetings and never ending lists and ticks, we’re finally ready to set off tomorrow.  HJ had an excellent send off yesterday from colleagues but we awoke without sore heads.  This was just as well because despite all the plans this has been a very busy day.  It is now nearly 7pm and we are just about to open the truffles and bottle of champagne kindly provided by LB. 

Our trusty taxi driver, Fenton, is collecting us at 3am for our initial flight to Madrid where we’ll pick up our direct flight to Panama City.  We arrive about 5pm, just in time for a quick unpack (11kg won’t take long), an early dinner and hopefully a good nights sleep.  We’re staying at the Deville Hotel for four nights before starting Spanish School on Monday.  In Panama we have mostly free time where hopefully we’ll discover that there is more to the city than the Canal, Panama hats (although they originated in Ecuador) and being the home of ‘canoe man’, John Darwin after he faked his own death.