Those ice-cream flavors sound pretty surreal and I swear I have not been drinking or smoking anything lately. Romeo and I were just walking in the streets of Casco Viejo in Panamá City where he took me out to some fancy ice-cream and sorbet store he and his brother had run into earlier. And there it was, in the middle of the mango-passion, banana-coco and strawberry sorbets: basil, lavender, and rosemary ice-creams that actually tasted good!

We continued our tour of Casco Viejo, the oldest part of town, recently classified as World Heritage and with on-ging renovation. This part of town also hosts the mayor of Panamá City, the President of the country, a museum on the Canal, and a bunch of tourist-trappy fancy artesan stores where Romeo and I bought a couple hammacs for our Massachusetts piece of paradise.