In fact the Panamanians are not very nice people or my first problems

In the first half of the day, together with Sergey, we wandered around different embassies, preparing to continue our journeys. He was returning to Costa Rica, and I was going to Colombia, and we needed visas. Monday seems to be a bad day for getting stamps on your passport - we returned to the hotel with nothing. But the troubles didn't end there. An unpleasant surprise awaited me at the hotel reception. The administrator, on behalf of the hotel owner, said that from today the price for my room has increased (almost doubled).

This announcement shocked me. And in a split second, I imagined how they took my room key away because I refused to pay a double rate, and I was left without belongings and a laptop in an unfamiliar and already completely unfriendly country. I got hysterical. But no one reacted to my modest and, frankly, senseless threats to call the embassy and the police (who were here on a payroll). Except for the Georgian co-owner Misha, whom I mentioned earlier. He stepped in and sorted things out. What exactly he said, I do not know - I still had not understood Spanish then - but after that, I was given the keys, and the issue was closed.

However, in the evening, Misha knocked on the door of my room and explained that the locals are not very far-sighted and prefer to make a quick buck, and everything else can go to hell. He, in turn, tried to maintain a good image of the hotel to attract guests and had helped me so that I did not leave a bad review on Booking.com, where I actually booked a room in this terrible hotel. Nevertheless, Misha advised me to move out because they would not leave me alone, and he might not be around.

Looking into the red stoned eyes of Mikhail from Georgia - he was a cocaine addict with an ever-running nose, I decided that starting from tomorrow, I won't set foot in here ever again! And without delay, I found another hotel - I booked a room there starting the next day.

It was an extremely unpleasant situation that greatly spoiled my mood and wholly rooted in my head an unflattering opinion about the Panamanian nation.

That's the way the cookie crumbles :(

TAGS: results of the day, defenselessness and lawlessness, backpackers

MOOD: anger, frustration, worry