Still in Colón

Portauthorities, Inmigration, Customs, Canalauthorities with all their officers, traveladvisers, portcaptains...time here follows other rules than in Europe. Offices filled with people, moving slowly, very slowly back and forth, uttering or grunting a word now and then, mostly "no", but definitely not working in an European sence. There are always problems which make it impossible to satisfy a citicens or a customers requirements. Procedures nobody can decrypt, inclusive the employees or officers themselves.
Outside the offices we, the sailors, would convene like the accused in court discussing our chances by greasing an officers hand or just by mere chance the following day or the day after. What a frustrating spoil of time, resources and money.
On the foto you can see the loosers of a preliminary adjudication, who try to convalesce.


Apart from that Colón decays and with it its houses and inhabitants. The Carnaval is cancelled due to the exploding numbers of murders in previous years. Lets hope we soon can get on, wheresoever, through the bloddy canal or northward towards civilisation.