Nick: There's not much to be said about our final day in Monteverde. Conscious of the impending trip to Australia, we spent much of the day sat in the hostel kitchen investigating potential stops on our route between Sydney and Brisbane. We had an early start the next morning to catch our 06:30 bus back to San Jose, and since we would be missing breakfast we put together some bacon, cream cheese and avocado sarnies to eat on the journey. The hostel owner was hanging around the place a fair bit during this time, along with some of her wider family, watching the telly (Jurassic Park, in Spanish - which, incidentally, includes some scenes shot in none other than Costa Rica. So there you go). Being a Sunday, they were cooking some food themselves, and we
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