 | lluvia
2008-02-21, Samara, Costa Rica. By: loganberry | | so costa rica has 2 seasons, summer and winter, but more importantly, dry and wet. it is ´summer´here right now which should mean, dry yes?? wrong, it has been raining the last 3 mornings and nights... |
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 | Goodbye Costa Rica part II
2008-02-19, Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | (This program states I'm in Puerto Limon but I'm actually further down the coast in Puerto Viejo). So, on Sunday I had arranged to meet a Dutch girl, called Tamara who I am supposed to be travelling w... |
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 | Goodbye Costa Rica
2008-02-17, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Well, am now in Panama but I'll update with news on my new country soon. For now stories of my last week ....
On Thursday it was my last day at the Guarderia so I said goodbye to my little angels a... |
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| ron más barco = ...
2008-02-19, Samara, Costa Rica. By: loganberry | | so this weekend was pretty interesting! friday was my last day of school and to celebrate we went out. i drank a little too much ron (rum). the rum down here is AMAZING though!! saturday morning ... |
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 | Fame at last !!
2008-02-13, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Hey - one of my photos of the sunset at Playa Samara has been put on the home page of this site as photo of the day !!! I'm so proud !!! |
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| las piedras
2008-02-12, Samara, Costa Rica. By: loganberry | | so in my last story i touched on the fact that i fall on the rocks constantly. i realized the equivalent for everyone...in the winter in colorado there is snow, and often ice. ice is slippery but be... |
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 | Puerto Jimenez .... a hellish journey ....
2008-02-11, Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | ..... but gorgeous men !! Honest to god I don't think I've met so many gorgeous men in such a short space of time ! Unfortunately no photographic evidence .... grrrr !
So, on Friday I opted for Pue... |
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| My weekend
2008-02-11, Samara, Costa Rica. By: loganberry | | Well this weekend was sure action packed for a tico weekend! On saturday, i kayaked (that´s right) to ´la isla´ i will take a pic of it from the beach soon and post it, but it was amazing!! on the w... |
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| ¿quiere monos?
2008-01-30, Samara, Costa Rica. By: loganberry | | so every morning i wake up and watch the sun rise over the ocean. ¡que linda! i go out and have a cup of cafe con leche and look at how beautiful it is here, and then the howler monkeys chime in. I d... |
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 | 3rd or 4th time lucky with a volcano ?
2008-02-03, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | As my regular readers will know I have a love-hate relationship with volcanoes. Since Guatemala I have admired them from afar however I decided it was time to bite the bullet again and give them anoth... |
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| escuela
2008-01-30, Samara, Costa Rica. By: loganberry | | yesterday i finished my second day of classes, they are very fun but not yet difficult, so far have just been review.
So on sunday, my host brother, Fabien, took me to the next beach over called ... |
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| Some observations ....
2008-01-29, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | There was a guy called William Walker from the US who I keep coming across when I read about the countries I visit - apparently he wanted to take over Latin America in the 1800's, kept invading (unsuc... |
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 | iPura Vida!
2008-01-28, Samara, Costa Rica. By: loganberry | | Sorry everyone!! i thought i put a story up on friday, guess not. my bad!! well here is my trip so far... i arrived in San Jose and there was no one to pick me up (awesome!!) i couldn´t figure out... |
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 | Another weekend ... Another beach !
2008-01-27, Quepos, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | I´ve been to Costa Rica before.... for 2 hours. When I flew from Madrid I came here to San Jose and sat in the departure lounge waiting for my connecting flight to Guatemala City. I remember sitting t... |
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 | Day 10 – Zip Lining Canopy Tours and New Years Eve
2007-12-31, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | Ahh, almost done having to not wake up using my internal body clock. That is incredibly tough and tiring because you end up sleeping light in fear of sleeping through your activities! Today was the ... |
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 | Day 9 – ATV Tour & Shopping
2007-12-30, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | We found out last night that our walls were incredibly thin, we could hear our neighbors quite well while we were trying to sleep. This trip was tiring is out! We had breakfast at the bakery that we ... |
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 | Day 8 - Monteverde and the Twilight Tour
2007-12-29, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | Today we headed on the taxi-boat-taxi ride from Arenal to Monteverde. WOW, just WOW. Too many people crammed onto a boat, three to a seat with luggage piled up in a corner, then over an hour on anoth... |
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| Message for my dear step-niece Amy ...
2008-01-24, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Don't even think about sweet-talking my mum into stories about me (I can feel my brother´s hand in this ....) - and Sarah and Gill (correct spelling) weren´t all that well behaved!
Just remember bro ... |
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| Callate !
2008-01-23, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Just a quick entry ... was having dinner here at the house and I asked Betty (my house mother) how to say "shut up" in Spanish. Both her and Oscar laughed and told me .."Callate !" and proceeded to te... |
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 | Back to the beach .... and the mosquitos !
2008-01-22, Liberia, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | I took myself of to the beach last weekend, the Pacific coast again. One of the women at the guarderia recommended Playa Flamingo in Guanacaste so after having researched Flamingo and found no hotel u... |
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 | Day 7 – Waterfall Rappelling
2007-12-28, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | Wow, this is the biggest group event we have ever been on. The tour is called Pure Trek Canyoning and you rappel down 4 waterfalls and a dry wall. I thought it would be a bit scary but really it was... |
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 | Day 5 – White Water Rafting
2007-12-26, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | We are trying to go white water rafting on every vacation that we can. It rained so much the last few days though that the river was full. When that happens, rapids disappear and life threatening, f... |
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 | Day 4 – Christmas at Baldi Hot Springs
2007-12-25, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily | | One of the things I was most worried about during this trip was trying to find a taxi on Christmas to take us to the Baldi Hot springs. I decided to book us for the whole day there, lunch and dinner.... |
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 | Just hanging around in the park ...
2008-01-15, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | This is more like it - I´m finding my feet now !
Got my routine sorted with the kids, I still spend about an hour with the 3 year olds in the morning which is about enough for me (and I suspect for... |
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