you know I loves ya really!

Bless

Had to move the puter up to the 3rd floor yesterday. We are expecting an influx of family next week and I dont want them messing with my puter So with all the stairs to climb I wont be on here much for the next 3 weeks, unless I want to escape from them

Oh God I'm going to throw up ...... wheres the throwing up emoticon gone damn it, I can't believe we haven't got one

You need to change your name to rugbymattandmattrugby.

Wow, allready 3 pages! you guys type fast.

The panama hat that you refer to is actually not very panamanian at all. The local hats, or Sombrero Pintado (Paintad hat), look like the one you are refering to, but has colored weaved into it in circles. It is worn with the front up, displaing that the user is happy and pleased, if the user has the back part turned up, there is a problem, of some kind in his life. They cost about 40 US.

The ditch will be made wider, adding 2 more locks, work is supose to start this year.

We do have a real estate boom, with mostly gringos, and south americans buying VERY flashy condos and villas in and around Panama City. There are a few europeans, but since the travel time is long, there arent that many investing right now. We are all expeting a big influx of the baby boomers in the next 5 years or so...

Other than that, every thing is as usual, hot, wet and humid! We are now in winter time, which means it rains almost every day for 1 hour or 2. In the summer its dry, but the year round temperature is around 30 degrees celcius.

please let me know if you have more questions.

Anyone owning a bar in spain, that would like to share some of the pit falls, either by Pm on forum, or by e mail. I have thought about a bar as a business when we move.

nick

that's what we did - puter on the top floor so that no-one can mess with it

I keep finding reasons to come up though

at the moment I'm checking to see if the washing's dry

Hope all goes well for you and yours.I think the hat thing is in my memory banks of old films. Got a feeling the questions are being lined up. I better make way for the advice comming through.....Good luck with everything

Put the bar right at the bottom of the list. ;-))

Of course with the size of your household at the moment it takes simply ages to check the washing and because you are caring for other peoples offspring you have to check it again and again and again to ensure that it is wearable!!!!!!

Good for you.

Rosemary

My brother has a Panama passport, he got it when he left the legion, don't ask me why.

Oh and I agree with what jdr said, although having a bar is serious fun when you get it right!!!!

JDR,

why the bar at the end on my list?

nick

It has been estimated that owning a bar is the quickest route to bankruptcy and failure in Spain.....



That said, if you get it right, and thats no easy feat, you can make a lot of money, but be prepared for some serious hard work.

If you are thinking of doing it then put some thought into doing something different.

I read something similar, but not only for spain. here in panama for example bars open and close monthly. Most people get amazed by the amount of cash they get, spend it on stupid things, and dont save for a rainy day, which always comes around sooner than you think.

I was thinking about doing a tropical kind of theme, specializing in drinks from central and south america,maby mix it up with some salsa/merengue tunes.

nick

Mate, by and large pubs do struggle, but I know of a couple of places that have thrived,one such place, in Torrevieja was a hard rock bar, with the emphasis on HARD!
The brothers that ran it worked like slaves, the place closed at about 4-5 am, but they were very wealthy from the place and wanted for nothing, not bad when you think they both turned up without a penny and worked as waiters for the first couple of years.

They can and do succeed but only through hard work and luck.........but then thats life isn't it?

'Panama ' hats are in fact made in Ecuador!