Posada Del Museo San Jose

... to my voice and we stumbled out of the bar and headed home dignity still intact.

The next day we all went to a dance class, and I managed to make even great dancers look ****, it’s a special talent. However, I thoroughly enjoyed myself learning how to do the bolero and merengue, there’s a lot of turns and if there’s something I’m good at, it’s twirling. So it was Sunday before I headed towards Panama. I decided to ...

... and showing extra effort) ****

Me: (trying to hold it together, drawing out the o and giving it a hard g) No foggg

Her: (forming the word drawing out the u and giving it a hard c) fuuuccck

Me: (laughing ) no con un “g” como gato

Her: (looking interested) un “g” como gato? Fuuck

Me: (laughing and speaking in Spanish) you can't say that. It is a bad word

San José, San José, Costa Rica abigayle_p

... to Santa Domingo and we were getting nowhere. We even toyed with the idea of paying a taxi and following him.

We found ourselves in quite a poor area with corrugated shacks and began to feel a little uneasy. There did appear to be quite a lot of building work going on so it did look like they were trying to improve this area. A little later after asking an old lady who pointed around but spoke no English and getting nowhere, Sam got out of ...

... quickly changed and then went back to finish dinner and went off to the night tour of the volcano. We drove to this place a mile from the base of the volcano, the closest we could get. It was lightning out and the sky was filled with stars and lava was flowing down the volcano. It was amazing! I wish the pictures had come out, but it was impossible to see anything in the pictures because it was so dark. It was really neat though. The top of the volcano was glowing a ...

... my heart sank. I was tiiiired! But thankfully it moved along quite well and I was through immigrations and customs within about 45 minutes. The airport is small but modern and there is a lot of construction and improvements happening.

I exited the airport to a throng of tico's (men of Costa Rican heritage) awaiting their loved ones, then I hailed an orange airport taxi brought me to my first stop - the Orquideas Inn, in Alajuela.

San Jose, Province of San Jose, Costa Rica yamangurl

... re by yourself. I don't quite know what they're thinking... My favourite viewpoint was about halfway down when you get the perfect view of Volcan Concepcion. I spent a fair amount of time sitteing there before making my way to the bottom. It was a bit confusing going down, and I ended up taking a different way than the rest of the group but it was an aventure and I got to see a few more petroglyphs.

In the end I only beat the others by about a half an hour. They had a great ...

... think that we have been on the go for 6 months now!!!! So today is the final day of this amazing journey, and what an incredible experience it has been. Now its time for 3 days of flying and airport layovers to take us back to that hallowed African soil. THE END...... for now!

... have been more lovely. Ed was pretty out of it at this point and so the Doctor talked me through everything that was going on and assured me that Ed was going to get the best care possible. An ultra sound scan (Ed was still able to make jokes about him having an ultra sound before me!!) showed a build up of fluid but there was no need to drain it because it was dispersing itself. They just had to make sure that it continued to do that or draining it would have been important. A couple of ...

... Amarillas with the name written on a big sign. Now you have to understand that bus stops, (paradas), are identified by buildings or other landmarks, not at the corner of two named streets. Our bus stop had a name Parada de Pequeno Mundo (a small food market) on the bus line going to Curridabat via San Pedro. Clear enough. We found where to board the right bus, asked to let us off at the "Parada de Pequeno Mundo" and arrived at our stop with ten minutes to ...

... his hosue. His parents were sitting down for lunch and asked me to sit. I didn't know if they knew or understood English. Patricia and Geraldo. They were very nice and I spoke a lot to his dad. His English was very good. I felt at home. Then Federico and I sat outside and talked. Their place was very beautiful. He was right the view was wonderful. We joked around and I talked like we haven't talked all week. Then he showed me his parents land and the ...