Hola! Pura Vida, Costa Rica! Pieces of advice: avoid rainy season - (it rains practically every single day), avoid buying anywhere in Tamarindo (better go to the supermarket with Buddha statues - we think it's called Auto Mercado or something like that- right before entering Tamarindo) , bring lots of sunblock and insect repellent, bring your camera everywhere, and DO NOT miss surfing (or surf lessons), ziplining (or canopy tour), and Palo Verde national park tour (if you are into crocs, monkeys, grasshoppers, iguanas, and egrets). Best time to go- December to April. Good p [View Full Entry]

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Wow it's been 4 years since my last trip. Almost forgot my password to this site. Well this blog will be a few days jammed into one. I left for Costa Rica on Sept 25th and had 2 lay overs. There's not really any direct flight to CR so I would recommend limitting your layovers. When I first purchase my ticket I thought 2 lay overs including 3 hours at each airport wouldn't be bad but until you do the time it sucks. The first layover was into Salt Lake City which I flew Delta. I don't know about the other [View Full Entry]

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Ok so we made it to school and were completely pulled it off as if it was planned. School does start at 8, ends at 3. We were there about 7:25, Jennifer administrative person had everything ready we signed, bought a couple shirts, done by 7:50 went to find the class room. Kiley’s Teacher is young and seems really fantastic. There are 15 kids. The classroom was literally finished being built in the last week. The school has a wonderful aire about it. Friendly, young, the “founders”, really great! None of them could possibly be past their 30’s, young thoughtful amazing [View Full Entry]

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Well.... this is it... the last blog. The rain has started to pour down here in Tamarindo (aka Tamagringo).... so no better time than now to duck in here and sign off. Hard to believe that our 35 day escape is about to come to an end!! It has been a while since my last blog (and i have received a few complaints... so my apologies). When I last blogged we were in Granda, Nicaragua and enjoying our four nights there. We hiked volcanos, enjoyed boat trips on the lake, watched the parade, took a carriage ride around the town... and [View Full Entry]

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So as I said in the last blog we left Tortuguero at 7am for the boat+bus+bus combination back to San Jose. If everything arrived on time we would hit the city around lunchtime and then the plan was to see what buses were leaving to get us to the pacific coast. Inparticular we wanted to get to a small place called Playa Samara which seemed to get good reviews in the LP for being quiet and unspoilt. The boat journey went well and we both really enjoyed it as it was sunny in comparison to the pouring rain we arrived in. [View Full Entry]

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Well!!! here i im!!! planing a special and amaizing trip to south america, everithing start some month ago when life toldme that i had to go and share with my father... some times life tellsyou things in on-spected way... but that is one of the especials caracteristic of this life isn,t it? one day living here in tamarindo, working in the reception of the hotel la laguna del cocodrilo (where my friends ben, dilan & tico joe have the best restaurant in town www.lalagunatamarindo.com)... i met with mr bruno, one very special and frendly french guy, and after afiew days of [View Full Entry]

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Haaa iedereen! Hier weer een berichtje over Tamarindo, nog steeds aan de westkust van Costa Rica, een deel over Tortuguero national park, en ben nu weer in San Jose. Ik hoor dat het weer matig is in Nederland? Wel jammer in de vakantie, alhoewel de meesten geloof ik wel weg gaan! Hier is het heerlijk weer, lekker zonnig, warm..maar wel plakkerig. Verder zitten we in het ''groene'' seizoen...maw: het regent iedere dag! Over het algemeen is dat wel lekker, soms stort het alleen zo hard dat het hele stadje/dorp hier in een modderpoel veranderd. Heb hier de afgelopen week niet stil [View Full Entry]

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Hey iedereeen! Eindelijk tijd om mail te beantwoorden en een bericht te plaatsen! First of all: ik ben goed aangekomen! Afgelopen donderdag was het dan zover... 13.20 vliegen via Miami naar San Jose. De paar dagen ervoor was ik redelijk relaxt, alleen af en toe gespannen bij moeilijke vragen: ''waar slaap je dan?" "hoe bedoel je je hebt nog geen kamer???" "ik wens je heel veel sterkte daar!" "let op je geld, let op je paspoort, let op je papieren, let op je zelf, praat niet met vreemden, ga niet in het donker naar buiten, neem geen taxi, laat je spullen [View Full Entry]

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Hola amigos! Really I should be writing this blog in Spanish as we have now started our spanish classes, but I think I´ll have to have a few more lessons before I´m up to that standard. Maybe next week... Well, we last left you when we arrived in Granada, which as always when we write our blogs seems a whole world away from where we are now. After spending our first day wondering round the town of Granada we decided to take it easy the next day and went to the "Monkey Hut" on Laguna de Apoyo, a little hut right [View Full Entry]

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Kate¨- So we had a bit of an akward flight to Costa Rica from L.A- not because anything went wrong but just because it was at 2 am and we had to stop over in Guatemala for about and hour before getting to San Jose so all in all is was around a 7 hour journey. By the time we got our luggage and hailed a taxi to take us to our hotel it was around 10am. We got to our hotel, a typical Best Western that we had pre booked and just vegged out for a bit in our room. [View Full Entry]

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