Sweetlivings first organized tandem jumps !!

Hi ya´ll. 

We just want to say that we´re sorry for not publishing so much in the blog right now. We´re working like crazy to get Sweetliving more up and running, planning alot of activities, events and travels but mostly alot of administration takes up most of our time. But shortly we´re back on track, so we can continue delivering the best  reports from all around the world to all of you here on the blog. We have a webdesigner working on our website right now. As soon as it´s ready we´ll let you know, it´s going to be awsome!

Plus many many plans and ideas that will come true during 2010, stay with us!

But in the meanwhile..........Sweetliving goes tandem ;-)

This whole year we´re going to organize alot of tandem jumps with Stockholm Skydive.

The idea is to reach out to alot of poeple and companies using advertising and alot of our connections.

Get everyone we know to come out to our DZ and do a jump. We want to show everybody what it feels like to jump out of an airplane and fall freely through the sky. The feeling is indescribable, you really need to see it and experience it for yourself. 

Here´s is our very first tandems. Thank you Mahshid, Marina, Greta & Marcus for jumping with us!

Marina, Greta, Mahshid & Marcus, happy flyers!

Marina & Greta

Marina

Greta & Marina

René going trough the jump

Tandempilot Mikael Hartman getting ready

And tandempilot René getting ready

Getting set up

Out to the plane

Marcus getting briefed

Viggo showing how it´s done

Marcus flying

Soon it´s Mahshids turn

Happy as never

Skydiving rocks!!

Camera man Fritte coming in for a sweet landing

Skydiving @ Skydive Stockholm is the best !!

If YOU want to skydive, send us an E-mail and we´ll get it done ;-)

Really hope to hear from you, you´ll never regret it!

See you all in Gryttjom DZ this year .

Best regards

David & Hella, Sweetliving Sweden

From Panama back to LA

Now the time has come for me to leave Panama and Centralamerica for now and go back to USA.

 It´s been an lovely time here and I miss it already. There is so much more to see and do here but I just haven´t got the time to stay any longer. Next time I come here I will stay much longer and travel around through all the CAM countries.

The journey ahead of me was not one I was looking forward to so much. First an nine hour bus ride from David in Panama, crossing the boarder into Costa Rica in Canoas in the south and then all the way up to San José.

Spend one night in a hostel in San José and then make my way to the airport the next morning to get on the flight to Miami and then get a connecting flight to Los Angeles. Love travelling sometimes ;-)

I was totally alone when I got on the bus in David. I thought that this had to be to god to be true but it actually was true. Only 5 more people borded the bus along the way. $15 Sweet Ride!

Arriving at the border between Costa Rica & Panama. When you got here you first have to take out all your bags from the bus, go to the customs and immigrations so they can search your stuff and check your papers. If you clear that you walk over to the Panama side and to the same thing in Panama. A common process which dissolved without any problem at all. And then I had to wait one hour for the bus to leave again, so i chilled with a cup of coffee with some locals.

Hot sunny day at the boardes

Just have to tell you about a guy that I met at the boarder. Hes name was Stephen but was called Coach, because he used to teach wrestling back in the days in the states where he was from.

This guy lived on the boarder. He had one house and one car on each side and he "worked" on the boarder every day. He knew everyone working there on both sides and was friends with everyone. He knew how everything worked and knew the system like the back of his hand. He was there helping tourists get across if the had any problems. He helped me a bit aswell, pointed me in the right direction and just told me what to do. In such cases as myself he did it for free because he didn´t waste valuable time helping me but on occasions, when he ran into people with alot of problem, like if they were bringing strange objects or driving a private car, don´t speak spanish or something like that , he would offer them his services for a sertain amount of money. And he could live on this because he had been doing this for the last 4 years.

So if you ever cross the boardes of Canoas, you will probably run into this guy. Spend a couple of minutes chatting with him, he´s a really interesting guy. Coach of the boarder!

Customs and immigrations on the Costa Rica side

Immigrations

San José 350, love that sign. See you in 8 hours...

The distance isn´t so far but the roads are bad and narrow and up and down along the mountains so it takes alot of time.

So finally I got to San José at 9pm, took a taxi for 25 minutes to a hostel near to the airport, so shitty not even worth writing about. The next morning I took another taxi to the airport. Arrived, paid the $26 depature tax, went through security, which must´ve been my 40 th security check so far. Got on the other side to see that my flight was 3 hours late. And you know what that means, yepp, coffee and LAN.

When the gate finally opened I got on the airport bus that took us to the aircraft. And then is when realized how small this world is. Next to me sat a girl, blond with blue eyes. I thought to myself, she could easily be Swedish. And she held her passport in her hands, it was european and I had to ask her if she was, and I was right. I´d just met Hanna from Falkenberg, Sweden. She was on her way home back to Sweden after travelling around for 3 months. We ended up talking the whole way to Miami, and believe it or not , we actually had a common friend aswell and it was nice to talk swedish for a while, that was a while ago. 

It´s a small world poeple.... ,-)

Me & Hanna from Falkenberg

So she got on her plane to London and I got on mine to Los Angeles. I arrived at 1am the next day and got picked up by my ninja friend Willlo and we went back to his place to get some sleep. 

Tomorrow Venice Beach.

YEAH, RASTA TRAVELS CONTINUES !!!

Big Up to all of you for reading.

Sweet Love // David

Life in Bocas continues...

Somedays you just open your eyes and you automatically start smiling. You maybe tired from the long hard days at the beach or the sun following you wherever you go but the paradise smile will never fail you in Bocas.

My days here continues and I really didn´t do much but chillin´. 

The Holy Week or Semana Santa as it´s called here in Latinamerica accured now when I was here. 

 It commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ before his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. It includes the religious holidays of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) and Good Friday, and lasts from Palm Sunday until but not including Easter Sunday. It was nice to experiance it although if you weren´t Christian or Catholic. The way it affected all the visitors was that all the bars and restaurants stopped selling alcohol during Maundy Thursday until noon Saturday. But we made it through anyway ;-)

One day me and my new friends Jethro and Tim went to Red Frog beach and the Island Bastimentos to try out the surfing there. The waves wasn´t to great but we caught some water anyway, and some sun for that matter and we got to see some red frogs. Reminder, never touch a red frog cause they´re poisonous.

I spent four days here in Bocas. I wish I could stay longer cause here there is no stress, no worries. Only nice people, not so many tourists, some backpackers, nice hostels, great brekfast places, sweet restaurants, one local bar that was the best ever, and much much more.... 

Special thanks to Kathrine and here restaurant Ultimo Refugio for the best food in Central America!

Mira...!!

Our hostel

Our hostel, very nice place

Our doorm

Good safety lockers ;-)

Bocas street, early monday morning, so peaceful!

Bocas street

Hostel Heike next door, ok, but not as good as ours.

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Good electricity

Bocas sea front

Best breakfast place

Lilys café

Inside Lilys

Lilys

Susana enjoying here smoked eggs

Again, morning coffee ;-) Aaaaahhhhh

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Police station

Surf time

A jungle walk to the beach

Jethro & Tim in the jungle with boards

We made it to the beach

Very Nice neighbors

And we had to party a little bit

Went to a cool place called Barco Undido

Alot of people and reggae, reggaeton n Hip Hop all night

Tim & René 

Semana Santa

Semana Santa

Poker night

We didn´t have any chips so we cut up different colours of paper to use instead, it worked ;-)

Texas Hold Em´ is the game, yes, I lost.

A cool local bar outside town

Great jukebox

Got to play pool with the locals, won one, lost one, but still.... Awsome.

A sweet place I will never forget

So thank you Bocas for this time

Now off to my "hometown" David in the south of Panama for one night and then back to San José.

Follow me ya´ll. And again, thank you for reading, means alot to us! 

Gracias todos // David