Sorry about the delay on updating the blog, its been really hard to find the internet in Venezuela, let alone good internet. On leaving Montezuma after a wonderful Xmas spent on the beach fishing we headed to the town of Alajuela which is in fact closer to San Jose Airport, both glad that we didnt have to venture into the dangerous capital. Before our flight we filled up on free samples of chocolate covered coffee beans, pineapple, passion fruit, guava, cashews, cacao nibs etc... and coffee, just incase we didnt get fed while in the air, we did. On landing in Caracas we had a huge ado with the currency here, we were expecting 2145 bolivars to the US dollar, and the cash point gave us a total of 30 bolivars, only later did we realise
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