Blogs from Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 100

After slight dissapointment at the Volcano experience (although i keep forgetting the aceness of the thermal spa) in La Fortuna, Monteverde had a lot of work to do. After arrival last night we had lengthy discussions as to what was the best course of action (we incidentally is still myself and Emma, the girl from the Valparriso blogs in Chile) for the next day. Monteverde as an area pretty much offers the lot in terms of activities that a Marc might be interested in. There's a cheese factory that offers tours (i'll forever regret the fact i couldn't fit this in, however i would like to point out i did go to a cheese factory in New Zealand, to anyone doubting my lack of cheese love - its still huge), coffee plantations with tours, zip lines ... read more

"Pura vida." It's about the good things in life that come from what's natural, and Ticos (Costa Ricans) love saying it. And I've loved living it for the past few days. (Mav, because I know you're reading this, I just wanted you to know that they also say "man" exactly like in Scarface. It's awesome. And I say it every chance I get.) As my last foreign stopover before making it back home, I landed at the international airport in San José, Costa Rica, on Friday afternoon and was prompted greeted by rain, which begins like clockwork every afternoon--2:00 in San José, 4:00 in Quepos. (Speaking of rain, it just began to downpour outside of my little internet café.) Leaving the big city, I grabbed a bus directly south to Quepos and the Parque Nacional Manuel ... read more

So here's the dealio right now. Ali and Jo have left Santa Teresa and will go to Ecuador this friday, starting work at the wildlife sanctuary there on monday. Now, GUESS WHAT? I've decided to stay in costa rica for another month!!!! I've found a house I can live in for FREE and share with my mexican friend, Sheila, and an american guy. Right on the beach, hot water, tv, beautiful wooden and tiled. WOW WOW WOW I said. PLUS, I'll be saving SO much money cutting a month off the volunteer work I'm doing in Ecuador which is gonna cost us about $400 PER MONTH! (for some reason they want to charge us US$85 per WEEK, NOT including food!) I can still go to Ecuador, join the other girls, and work at the wildlife rehab ... read more

Myself and pete have had a crazy couple of days. I don't know where to begin. We decided that we were ready to leave playa carmen and the tranquilo hostel. The waves had gone a bit rubbish, and as crazy as it sounds, i was getting boared of having to fill my time sat in a hammock reading or watching cable tv. I watched all 3 games of the champions league on tuesday and wednesday live on espn. I didn't travel half way round the world to watch more football than i would in the uk. I was strong on Wednesday when liverpool were on. I had decided enough was enough and me and pete would go i search of waves at another beach instead. Bearing in mind that it is the rainy season, and we ... read more

Sorry! This was a diversion from the Mountain air. Got pics, met people, swam in the Pacific, got HOT and saw property...then got disgusted! Met a woman, hope to hear from her soon, gave her my email, hers was defunct. See what I saw: Now google surf pics under Costa Rica......... read more