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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

There´s a sign up on the back of a Panamaian toilet door in Bocas Del Toro that reads:

You´ve been in Bocas too long when:
1. The only people who remember you arriving are the staff.
2. You think going to the laundry/internet is a productive day.
3. You stop saying you´ll leave tomorrow.

After four days I had filled all the criteria. And still I had no intention of leaving just yet. When I left that toilet door I rejoined Martini Monday in a bar whose name I could never get my tongue around. As a solo female traveller I decided to stay away from alcohol for the most part, don´t want to end up accidentally married or anything. But that evening, I was surrounded by four Irish people, two New Yorkers and three Panamanian guys, so I felt safe enough.
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