These are some of the services that we have used or been in contact with

• Canada Embassy – their phone number here in Panama is 507-264-9731
  PanCanada is the Panama Canada Chamber of Commerce 507-223-6788
   

• Continental Airlines – this is who we use now for travel.
   

• Viajes Tivoli – Paulina is who I use now to book car rentals, my yearly travel insurance and any tours we want to take, like the canal cruise. She speaks English and they are a full service travel agency.
   

• Abelardo Saldana, family medicine. He speaks English and is very easy to talk to.
   

• Wellmed Clinic is where we had to go for our health insurance tests. Dr. Jorge Rodriquez is wonderful, speaks English. They also are set up for stress tests.
   

• Laboratorio Clinio Fernandez is the lab for blood work and all those other labs.
   

• Optica Sosa y Arrango S.A. is where I got Tom’s replacement lenses for his sunglasses and where I will go for my progressive glasses. They are in Punta Pacifica.
   

• Pets & Animals is where I take Cricket for her haircuts. Those cost 8.00 and if you want a flea and tick bath, those cost 8.00 as well. I do have shampoo at home that I use that is for fleas and ticks. She also takes a heart pill for heart worms and we use a liquid on her coat for fleas and ticks. These are things you must do living here where the temperatures are always high.
   

• Creative Hair Design is where I get my hair cut out here in Costa del Este. Violet charges 8.00 for a haircut.
   

• Studio siete is where we get our business cards made, very reasonable!
   

• Panafoto and Multimax are where we bought our small appliances and tv’s.
   

• Mailboxes Etc is where you want to set up your mail delivery – they do not have mail delivery here in Panama, so we have a mailbox in Miami and they send out mail out here where we pick it up. They also email you to let you know you have mail. Great service.
   

• I get two magazines here, ABC Living and Vivir Bien – both Spanish and English and keeps you up to date. There is also another magazine called the Panama Planner, your guide to travel in Panama that is well worth getting. Not too much here in English and no newspapers in English except for one called The Visitor which you can pick up at hotels etc. Full of good information on what is happening in and around.
   

• IDAAN is who we get our water bill through
   

• Our internet is from Cable & Wireless
   

• We use Direct tv for satellite
   

• Elektra is our electricity company
   

• Cable & Wireless for our local phone
   

• Rosetta Stone is the Spanish program that Tom is using
   

• We bought two cell phones so each one of us has one and you just buy minutes for them. We use Movistar for the minutes.