Blogs from San José, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 76

We were pretty sad to leave the US of A after five busy weeks; what an amazing place, well continentally sized place, to travel around; in particular in a Ford open-top Mustang. So many options, so many landscapes and so much to do. And although from time to time the hospitality folks get on your wick, it's generally tops for service and easy-going, chatty people who want to know all about you. A bit like Oldham :-) So after the most ridiculous fiasco in the world regarding actually getting our ticket from Los Angeles sorted out with TACA (they lost it, at least twice), we arrived somewhat rueful, on 7th November in rain-deluged San Jose, ugly capital of CR (what is it about Latin America that generally, you are advised to avoid the capital cities? Seems ... read more

We are finally here and it is hot! Our hostel is really nice but we are extremly tired and must go to sleep right away! ... read more

We left Nathan Dees, the Texas schizo guitar legend and eventually made it to Playa Dominical. We managed to get there without getting robbed at the bus stop this time and found a really cool place to stay right on the beach. Pete bartered with the guy at the hostel (local guy called Junior) and we got a double room with en suite for the same price as a dorm. We were actually right on the beach and i could check the surf from in my bed. When we got there the surf wasn´t that great, about chest to head high but a bit messy. It was however, much better than jaco, so we got straight in. It turned out to be quite a heavy wave, and the beach had really strong rip currents. I caught ... read more

As I have now realized that 50 pictures on this site will not do, I´ve started a webshots site, where I´m posting every shot I take on this trip along the way. The site is: http://community.webshots.com/user/bulary... read more

C'est fou comment il a differents travails qu'on ne fait pas au Quebec ou meme en amerique du nord. Voici quelques exemples : Au Bresil Merlin avait besoin de liquide paper, il va voir une dame qui lui donne un papier et qui dit d'aller payer a la caisse, a la caisse, il paie et l'autre dame lui donne un autre bout de papier lui disant d'aller voir une troisieme dame qui va lui donner son liquide paper. Bref, 3 personnes pour un liquide paper. Dans les toilettes publiques pour homme a l'aeroport de Rio de Janeiro, un gars etait a cote du papier pour les mains et pesait sur le "piton" pour derouler le papier pour les clients. Dans les autobus voyageurs (vue qu'on fait toujours de la bus), la loi interdit au chauffeur de ... read more