 | No beach after all ...
2008-01-13, Cartago, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Well, I didn´t make it to either the Pacific Coast or Caribbean coast this weekend ! I had sort of decided to head up towards Guanacaste and on to Playa Coco but the bus left at 8 in the morning from ... |
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 | Day 3 – ATV Tour in Arenal & F’d Up Restaurant
2007-12-24, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | It rained so much last night that our tour to the Venado Caves was cancelled. That was sad because it looked to be like the most fun out of all of our activities. I tried to find an activity so we w... |
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 | Day 2 – Arenal Lake & Eco Termales Hot Springs
2007-12-23, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | So I was told that December in Costa Rica is summertime, apparently that isn’t so where we are at in the Arenal area. We only brought a couple of pairs of pants and LOTS of shorts. It’s raining, it ... |
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 | Day 1 - Arriving
2007-12-22, San Jose/La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | We flew TACA, red-eye, from LAX direct to San Jose last night. I like to make the most out of my trips usually and so like to fly in the evening to save a day.
The drive from San Jose was going to... |
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 | This is bloody hard work !!
2008-01-10, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Well, I´ve done 3 days now at the day care centre and I´m knackered ! Luckily for me (and the babies) I´ve managed to avoid the babies since the first day. In the morning I tend to keep and eye on the... |
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| Do something that scares you every day !
2008-01-08, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Oh god, just finished my first day ..... After having had to get 3 different local buses into downtown San Jose and then out to Barrio Naciones Unidas I arrived at the centre a tad nervous.
I was a... |
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| I feel like a newbie again ...
2008-01-07, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Can´t find the exclamation mark on this keyboard so will use the asterix **
Well, just a short entry to let you know I have enrolled on my new project here in San Jose. I arrived at the language sc... |
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 | Just adding some photos ...
2008-01-03, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | I've just found a couple of discs of photos from Guatemala in my rucksack that I had forgotten about and seeing as recent photos are a bit thin on the ground I thought I'd put the best of the disc on ... |
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| First 2008 entry !
2008-01-02, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Hi everyone ! Happy New Year, hope you all had a good night on New Year's Eve.
I arrived here in San Jose (Capital of Costa Rica, you WILL be tested on your Central American capitals on my return !!)... |
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| Do you know the way to San Jose ... ?
2007-12-30, Samara, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | .......I wasn't going to put an entry on here until I got to San Jose but something has just happened that has, 1. Made me go into my room and scream .. 2. Made me laugh out loud ...... 3. Made we wal... |
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| Stuck in Samara !!
2007-12-29, Samara, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Not really a bad place to be stuck in but I wanted to head further down the coast however everywhere seems to be booked up due to the holidays. So, I managed to extend my stay here until New Year's Ev... |
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 | Christmas Eve followed by .....
2007-12-26, Samara, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | For some reason I always seem to get sick at some point around Christmas / New Year, it´s a given. I even had an email from Alan asking if I´d felt ill yet, I replied, "no, not yet, but there´s still ... |
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 | Christmas Eve on the Pacific ...
2007-12-24, Samara, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Well, Christmas Greetings everyone, if you are in the UK I hope you are enjoying the weather .... tee hee ! I have spent the last few days topping up my tan, mastering the art of using a boogie board ... |
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 | Welcome to the Pacific Coast !!
2007-12-20, Samara, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | The "photo of the day" on the welcome page of this site for today looks familiar ! It´s Semuc Champey, Guatemala - I´ve been there ! I feel like a proper traveller now !
Well, I´m here at Playa Sam... |
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| Following on from previous story .....
2007-12-17, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | So, here I am in La Fortuna. I´ve hooked up with Dermot who I met whilst in Seville, we managed to co-ordinate our meeting via emails. Neither of us had been to La Fortuna before but I just suggested ... |
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 | Welcome to Costa Rica .... Welcome to Disneyland
2007-12-16, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Well I´m here in Costa Rica and I´m suffering from culture shock.
But first, another hellish journey to report on..... the boat from Altagracia was a proper boat at least, a small inside seating ar... |
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 | la tortuga feliz
2007-09-17, puerto limon, Costa Rica. By: vorn | | got the bus up from san jose to bataan for some turtle conservation at la tortuga feliz. thought i would lose the beard while we were waiting for our taxi, and to be fair i did only say beard so the b... |
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