Kathryn, who we had met on the bus from Panama, had invited us to stay with her so we went up to Turrialba to stay a few nights. It was a 2 hour drive passing plantations and rural settlements. Some of the housing was small and uniform and we found out later it was for the Nicaraguan workers on the coffee and sugar plantations. We found Turrialba to be a small town with a main square, lovely church, a disused railway and lots of people. We brought a couple of bottles of wine from the supermarket and took a taxi to Kathryn's place which was 5 minutes out of town. She worked as an English teacher for Catie (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center - the acronym works in Spanish) and had a house on
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