Holiday Inn Aurola San Jose

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5th Avenue and 5th Street San Jose, Province of San Jose, Costa Rica, 2523-1000

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White Water Rafting on the Reventazon River

A colleague of mine, Steven Wind, approached me one day and said "Dude, when are we going to go white water rafting in Costa Rica?"..... and that is how this trip evolved. After several weeks of switching potential dates we finally settled on flying down to San Jose on the evening of October 10th, arriving there around 9:30pm. Initially we had the following persons that were going to take this trip: Me, Steven, Ryan (Steven's friend), Jeremy (my buddy), Chuck (my buddy), Rusty (my brother), a...

San Jose, Costa Rica a3dennert
Ready for bed in Costa Rica

We made it! We have just unpacked our suitcases and are in Central San Jose at the Aurola Holiday Inn. Initial impressions are that we won't be going out tonight as the streets seem to be busy but a bit risky. Everything has roll down shutter doors or large iron fences. It seems property crime is common. Our clothing makes us stick out like a sore thumb as La Tourista! I brought along a Dora The Explorer doll of my daughters so she can see her travelling the world. I will upload a photo in a ...

San Jose, Province of San Jose, Costa Rica cartercostarica
Feliz Navidad y Feliz ano nuevo

Merry Christmas and a happy new year from Central America!!! I know this comes late, and I apologies for not being more diligent in the update of this website; New Year has come with its new resolutions, so I promise you a close follow up of the events here. What happened was that I started getting used to the life here, such that I didn't know how to chare this anymore. At first everything was new, so much easier to describe, but after two months the problems started to show. While living in...

San Jose, Costa Rica india
Welcome to Costa Rica!

So I woke up and left the Holiday Inn without breakfast. Even though I had free food coming to me, I had to get my white butt to the airport. In Line I met one girl going for ISV. She met one, and so that made 3 of us. We got to the gate and talked for a while. I saw another girl our age so I asked her, ¨ISV?¨ Yes! Come sit with us. We talked for a long while. I knew there had to be more ISV students there, so I made a paper with ISV written on it and collected 4 more students!! We all sat to...

San José, Costa Rica ttomei
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Day 41 - Lemonade

... this for charity man, stop judging us. Unfortunately, the bus route map didnt help. so, we just followed our compass south until we accidently took a back road to a near by village. Then after seeing non motor way signs to a town we needed to get to we celebrated by sleeping on the grass. After a short sleep we followed the signs, which eventually led us on to a motor way, AGAIN. Nightmare. right, so we just gave up and set up camp in a near by national park ...

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Lets get outta San Jose! (Evan)

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We found a market a few blocks from the terminal to get some dinner and food for the road - little did we know there were two meals awaiting us on the bus. The market was a bit dicey since it was night-time in San Jose. There was a young man at a well lit bread shop (paneria) who spoke english. He helped us order an unfried chicken empanada, a massive scone and a cheese and veggie filled piece of soft bread. The man left for a minute ...

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Churrioes yum yum!

Last night we went to a spanish beach bar which was right on the beach no English people were there and non of the bar staff spoke English which i really like! I like to see a country from the locals no touristy areas.

Today we went to the Puerto de Mazzron in the day we got a bus down which was half hour late! We went to a restaurant which we had previously been ...

Puerto de Mazarron, Murcia, Spain and Canary Islands luke_1989
Puerto De Mazzron

... all the back roads which were terrible and really bad and bumpy. We arrived on the port and went to a pub which was run by an English women, stayed there for one drink and then went for a walk there was a spanish punch and judy show (In spanish) we stood and watch that for ten minutes! It was strange because it was 11:15pm and there was spanish kids everywhere still up and it was packed ...

Puerto de Mazarron, Murcia, Spain and Canary Islands luke_1989
Spanish Market Chaos

... selling these long things which looked like long thick chips. I wasnt that good at spanish to ask what they were so i just went a pointed saying una! She said Ingles and i said yes she gave me one portain( six sticks) and i put sugar on them as i saw other people doing

They were very nice it was like donut dough in a long stick which was fried, I later found out by my nan that they were called Churrioes.

Then we went back layed by the pool that night we had dinner at me nans.

Bolnuevo, Region of Murcia, Spain luke_1989
Run to the sun in Espana

... of Puerto De Mazzron the temperture of the sea was perfect although it worried me a bit seeing a jelly fish in the sea.

We arrived at a bar on the beach right on a the corner where an island was sticking out and decided to sit there and have a drink. I ordered a Cevasa which is spanish for beer he had bit trouble understanding because i didnt pronounce it properly but i got what i wanted eventually.

It was a nice spanish ...

Bolnuevo, Region of Murcia, Spain luke_1989
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