Alamar Aparthotel
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Living the Pura Vida in Costa Rica
... standing over me.
‘Sau…’ he started before realising I was practically licking my plate removing the few morsels that remained. It was at that point I realised that the sauce was added separately and I had just basically eaten poached egg on muffin for my breakfast!!!
So much for catching ‘rays’ in these 3 days of nothingness. The first 2 days, despite being mid to late 70s were very humid and overcast. The sea became a ...
Isla Tortuga
... tired so I went to bed not long after dinner. Sunday Sunday was a pretty chill day for us. We walked to the Common Cup and worked on our blogs and homework. It was nice to have a nice relaxing day or doing nothing. We also went to this little pizza place that was supposed to have the best and cheapest pizza in town, they even had a pizza with jalapeños! It's so weird not seeing chile served with every meal. Tomorrow our friends from Heredia get here, can't wait! Chao! ...
Coffee Anyone?
... a specialty farm. We actually got to drink the sugar cane on the owners patio. Now when I say patio I mean the farmer built his entire house less than 500 sq feet and it was awesome.
After that we went to the coffee plantation farm with another local family running it. They told us all about growing and roasting coffee and then we proceeded to the family kitchen to have fresh brewed coffee. We were actually sitting in ...
The town that needs some love
... way in Tambor but in a way that preserves the Tico culture and feel to the place. It's malacon stretches forever and if the contamination were better controlled the beach's gentle surf would be the perfect playground for any hot day. This little town needs some love!
After dinner we picked up some snacks and beer at a market on the corner by the dinner place and headed back to our hotel. It was hot with a wild wind blowing and all the trash ...
LOOK! It's Fall!
... so we went out for pizza and ordered a coke each, thinking we would get a full glass of coke and not knowing the price but figuring it to be around $1 like everywhere else. We were handed a little coke can and it turned out to be $2 each! I left for the grocery store while waiting for our pizza to come and bought us each an iced tea, which were each not even $1 and twice the size of the coke can. After pizza, we sat in the park on the swings in the dark and talked about all we ...
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