Hotel El Milagro Tamarindo

... walk, excercise, swim, read, grab food for dinner, shower and hangout on the porch swing. I´ll just point out three daytime moments. First, we ran on the beach. We planned to make running a routine, but yeah right! Secondly, my new friend, Gabe, took me out and tried to teach me to surf. I never got up on my feet, but I rode in on a couple of waves on my knees. I know it doesn´t count, but it counts for me. Surfing is hard and my arms are still ...

... inside, just sitting there all cool, slowly eating...I am sweating profusely my body is detoxing and wants me to suffer.<br>I seriously can't stop sweating. But I shouldnt be such a Barney Blandy, I had an amazing trip, it was great to see Brendan and meet new people and start new friendships, that is the best part of WRSC and CR, the people you meet along the way. We had great weather, no rain at all and had waves everyday, I got more waves in the first 2 ...

... drinks up in the Penthouse, met a few more cool people, Shelly is an expat chick, very cool, and she quit her job and moved here in May and is loving it, surfing everyday and then will try to find a job in high season. So we headed up to PasaTiempo for open mic night, we were trying to get Brendan to sing again, but it was a total cluster with the band, we drank some beer and it was so freaking hot, and quite honestly it just wasnt the same without the rest of the crew, I ...

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!! Not since my first time on the beach here have the jellyfish been so numerous as today! And I had already lugged a heavy surfboard to the beach so you know I was going in. Just another fear to overcome, right?? gulp. I was on my board so quick! Probably within barely 2 feet of being in the water. Skated along for a little ...

The drive from the mountains down to the coastal town of Tamarindo was straight forward and easy. The traffic was exceptionally light however I'm sure that was probably due to the fact that is was Christmas Day. We had no reservations since we originally had no intention of going to Tamarindo. It was the rainy weather in the mountains that encouraged us to seek that which we sought - sun.<br><br>Tamarindo is a nice almost hippyesque town beside the nesting grounds of the ...

... hold a colorful green and blue one with red eyes. After our daytrip we returned to the hostel to take a nap, which turned into a 3 hour long nap. We were able to meet our other roommates. There were two guys from California, one was a 4th grade school teacher who spends his summers traveling, one girl is from Holland, two girls were from Flordia and one girl is also from the US but she had just finished spending 6 months teaching english to ...

... hot swimming pools. Toby and I also sampled the waterslides which turned out to be an insurance claim waiting to happen. I went first accelerating from 0-70mph in a few seconds, flung round the side, almost flat on my face and nearly over the side before crashing into the pool below to the sound of gasping tourists. This was to be my last jaunt down the slide. Unharmed but shaken. Toby followed, with an equal ...

... showing too. I think the kingfishers stole the day, with respect to birds anyway. We saw three species of these. The Amazon kingfisher is a pretty big bird, about the size of a kookaburra with a blue coat and a reddish brown chest and white throat. He is very striking. The green kingfisher looks pretty similar but is much smaller, less than half the size. The ring kingfisher is similar in size to the Amazon but has a pronounced white ring around its neck. At ...

Hello people, <br>Thanks to everyone for the birthday love. I am feeling sad that I couldn't see anybody and hang out on my b-day, but I have good friends down here. We all miss home in some way and all of us get along soo well. One guy Rich has been here for the last 2 weeks, and he is a surfing maniac, and I am always willing to get out there so we have been surfing so much ...

Wow!! We nearly fell off our chairs during a routine visit to an internet café last week. We were casually scanning our newly arrived e-mails, and noticed a short one from Carmella (aka whereshegoes), the Community Manager at TravelPod. "Congratulations!"...congratulations for what, we wondered? "Did you get a chance to check out the December Newsletter?" she asked. Quickly clicking on the link we soon discovered that we were the recipients of the ...