Blogs from Samara, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean
Samara Beach Trip
Published: July 12th 2011Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Samara
July 11th 2011
So my first vacation day since march so Samara is suggested and since its only like three hours away by bus I hope on board awesome. So off we go the day comes I leave on a 6 am bus from my community to Nicoya and then a bus to Samara which has me there by 9 am. So I call the others and realize that they wont be here till like 11 or noon. So I head to the beach with all my stuff. I soon make friends with a nice group of seniors from Spain who sort of adopt me we have several short conversations and I come to realize that I hate “wow your Spanish is really good” just about as much as I hate your English is so good... our conversation continues ... read more
April 21st 2011
Samara is located in a bay surrounded by several other remote beaches. Samara beach has a lot going on with surfing, kayaking, snorkeling and a bunch of bars and restaurants. We spend a lot of time hanging out at the beach and here are some of our pics and vids.... read more
James' Birthday Festivities!
Published: September 28th 2011Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Samara
April 19th 2011
For my Birthday Rebecca surprised me with a scooter rental for a family outing to visit some local beaches. Then over the weekend she planned a trip to Monteverde & Arenal to visit some hot springs and go zip lining! Unfortunately Bruno wasn't allowed on the zip line - Boo!... read more
Toros - Bull Riding!!!
Published: September 28th 2011Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Samara
April 16th 2011
Over Easter weekend in Samara they converted one of the local fields into a bull riding arena. The stadium was thrown up in a week and looked like it may collapse at any moment. Locals congregate in one of two places; the arena wall (which is a fence post) or in the arena itself! This is not your typical bull riding event, after the cowboys fall off the locals in the arena play dodge the bull!!!!... read more
Samara Beach - Around town!
Published: April 21st 2011Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Samara
April 14th 2011
We arrived in Samara beach on March 4th. The town of Samara is a small beach town, located on the Pacific Coast. The town itself is pretty secluded, surrounded by only 2 dirt roads leading out of town, and one paved road leading back to San Jose. Our local residents include wild horses, a socialite dog scene, howler monkeys, iguanas, and lots of crazy scooters. The doggie scene includes many collared dogs that are free to roam; which includes daily races with cars (running after their owners driving to work) and frequent beach trips to play in the waves and with buddies. Quite cute! We plan on being in Samara for 1 to 2 months. The TEFL course is held here and lasts 4 weeks. We'll see where we end up when all is said and ... read more
Classico Camaronal - Surf Competition
Published: May 4th 2011Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Samara
April 8th 2011
The weekend after Rebecca completed the TEFL course we took a trip with some of the other girls to a local surf competition, the ride was a little crazy as the beach was pretty remote but it was another fun day on the beach....Bruno took 2nd place! Surf Video... read more
April 1st 2011
For the first month Rebecca took part in a TEFL course with 10 other girls. 10 girls working together could have been a recipe for disaster but luckily everyone got along and there weren't any problems. Most of the girls were from the east coast, 1 was from Wisconsin (go cheeseheads (2 if you include Rebecca)), 1 from France, and 1 from Argentina. . We took classes in a small building in the center of town. Each night we would teach to varying groups of locals. James and Bruno were frequent visitors to the cafe next to the school because the internet at home never worked. It didn't take long before Bruno became the TEFL mascot and James became the TEFL husband :) At the end of the course we had a graduation party at the ... read more
Casa Luna - Our first apartment!
Published: April 25th 2011Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Samara
March 2nd 2011
Casa Luna was an interesting apartment. Made up of 6 apartments and run by a local lady called Mayala aka 'the devil'. We paid a little extra for this place as it was supposed to have AC and secure WIFI. Well, the apartment did have AC. But, if you ran it, she wanted $1/hour or she would just come in and turn it off while you were out. The secure internet was the neighbors internet that had no password so all her guests could use it....when it worked! Oh yeah, and we got to share the apartment with some friendly giant cockroches that were partial to a cup of coffee! And each day we awoke to a nice cold shower of green mold. Other than that it was a great place LOL.... read more
To the beach...
Published: April 4th 2011Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Samara
March 1st 2011
After a couple days of exploring the city we picked up our rental car and headed over to the coast. Samara here we come... The total drive time from San Jose to Samara is about 4 hours but thanks to our handy car rental guy who programmed the gps to avoid highways total drive time was 8 hours. Thanks Mr. Alamo..... read more
Tropical Paradise (Nicoya Peninsula)
Published: February 23rd 2011Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Samara
February 18th 2011
Well its been a while I know, but we have been busy on our holiday, so sorry to those of you who were waiting for an update! I´ll pick up where Jon left off....Samara. This is our favourite place. We ended up staying for 6 nights and I pretty much got into a nice routine here. In the morning after a nice healthy breakfast Jon would head off to the beach as he was learning to surf (another activity that I coudn´t participate in) whilst I went to the local cafe and had a morning coffee. This cafe was on the beach under some nice palm trees, just heaven!! The place we were staying was like a fully self contained apartment. One night we had dinner at a restaurant on the beach that was renowned for ... read more
