Hotel Casa del Mar Playa Samara

... are able to replicate in Long Beach.

We decided to do the surf lessons with Jimmy from Jesse's Surf Shop and had the yoga lessons with his wife. They were both really cool and we spent hours chatting with them about life in Samara and elsewhere (she was from Colorado and spent summers there). I would spend many hours chilling in the hammocks on the beach drinking coconut juice.

... I've seen in the states, even the farm! I think though that Mozambique last year had this place beat. Anyhow, I've seen so so sooo many shooting stars already, they are just constantly flying across the sky. Then there is of course the moon, which the last two nights has been nearing full so its been nice and bright for the walks. Some nights there are incredible lightning shows off in the distance in all directions, those blinding ...

... of us triyng to dance, mainly because the boys were so good and we pretty much sucked. But we atleast tried. Last Friday Emily and I left for Tamarindo, which is a beach in the north west of CR. It took almost 5 hours to get there by bus, and we were so tired when we got there we just ate at Pizza Hut and went to bed. We decided to stay in a hotel instead of a hostel because the hotel was fairly cheap and we didn't want to have todeal with other people. On ...

... lift are trying to make small talk with us. Just down the road appears the office area. No uniforms here. Attempt 3 at my Spanish interpretation of what happened last night. The man invites us round to his office and i need to make a statement in Spanish, no interpretors (only K!) here. He is very good and asks slowly and clearly so we just about get there. Somehow the official question of am i married moves to do i have a boyfriend, and can he come to the beach ...

... boogie boarding though which was a laugh. it was nice to spend our last part of travelling in central america chilling out and catching some rays. hopefully i shall look slightly more tanned for my return! we left samara on sunday to come to san jose. san jose isn´t the nicest place on earth. at night its quite dangerous so we don´t bother venturing out. tomorrow morning we say ...

... only to find that the cheese had curdled and gone off in the hot ride. We ate it anyway. 30 minutes later, a bus came and took us 7km back the way we had come and we found our hostel. It was a superb place, for 10$ a night, we had a private room with a shower right on the sandy shores of the Pacific.We dumped our stuff and just as the sun was setting, we hit the warm water. Really warm water. The sun set behind a big hill at the other end of the long beach and we caught some ...