Peter's Travel Blog

Today, we passed through the Panama Canal, from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. However one feels about it (the Panama Canal continues to divide opinion, mostly on ecological grounds, and the potential damage it causes to the surrounding rainforest), the canal is a spectacular feet of engineering. It was opened on August the 15th 1914, with the first...

We spent a leisurely morning watching the birds and admiring the Pamana City skyline, which, despite still being hazy, was much clearer – and quite impressive it is. There were loads of pelicans and smaller birds flying in ‘V’-shaped groups just above the surface of the sea. Pickings for the birds must be rich in this area; we could see,...

Today was another sea day, and the second of my watercolour sessions. Things went a little more smoothly this time around on account of knowing what we had to play with and being more organised in sorting the materials out in preparation for the class. I had the group applying the simple washes we learnt in the first session to...