Filed under: Ramblings
This is a post on the very helpful ChiriquiChatter blog site. It’s a great reminder of what you may need to do (not do) when hiring a maid / housekeeper / cook here in Panama. Here’s how it starts, then click the link if you want to keep reading.
I know that many people picture one of the benefits of moving to a Latin American country being the cheap labor and the ability of having a full or part time maid. Well it is and it isn’t.
La Gringa’s current maid adventures have reminded me.
After you live here a while you forget some of the first problems you run into with maids. It is easy to just assume that all you do is hire a maid, give a few general instructions, grab your favorite book and go relax. Well dream on. Here in Panama, many people have maids. Just because you hire a maid that has experience, doesn’t mean that she will know anything about cleaning the way you want. Continue Reading
I’m not sure if anybody really cares, but here is an explanation of the banner for this blog site. The background is a photo that I took while on a drive up the road going towards Volcan Baru. The vantage point was near the house perched up there that you can see from the valley. This was taken around April of 2006. The rooster, I captured in mid crow on our recent visit in October. The two images were photoshopped together and some text added and ta’da a banner was born. There’s no denying that the rooster is one of the more vocal communicators in Boquete and so VEPANAMA is striving to be a voice for Valle Escondido residents.
