Hi, we think we've got the hang of this site now so hopefully our blog will improve!!! We stayed at Mi Casa Hostel in San Jose, bar one night in La Fortuna and it turned out to be a really nice place, just what we needed after stinky Cuba! San Jose, for any of you prosepective travellers, is very much like Birmingham, England...but smaller. We flew with TACA again and we fully recommend this airline, we think it's better than BA! Tom made two friends on the plane. A really nice, eccentric, old Cuban guy who had been in Mexico, Bolivia and Costa Rica for reasons he never divulged, and Ernesto, a trainee doctor from El Salvador who Tom introduced to Johnny Walker Red Label! San Jose is definitely just a stop off point, not
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