Tryp Corobici Hotel San Jose

A Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year to all of my friends and family! I hope you had a fun time . We experienced a festive period that was rather different to what we are usually used to out here in the sweltering heat of Costa Rica / but we did have fun!

Steve and i spent a nice family day at Manuel Antonio beach with Dave and the ...

Not much to say about this leg of the trip except to say that the journey from baggage claim to car rental facility to front of car rental line to being handed keys to rental car was excruciatingly long. We were starving by the time all was said and done...and were therefore more than excited to eat some bad roadside pork (I think) and chicken (...

Another foreign country, another bathroom without any lights (that I can figure out at least).

Well, my morning started of at the nice decent hour of 4:30 a.m. The good news is that I didn't get a ticket on my way to the airport. I did however pass a Highway Patrol car but fortunately he was sitting on the Airport Road offramp. If he had...

There is so much to learn here. I need help doing EVERYTHING. I am so thankful that people are patient and helpful. Yesterday when I went to the bank I was completely confused. They only let one person in at a time.

That was weird.

I so glad that I was about 4th in line. Had I been second, they probably would have thought that I w...

Hammocks, chillaxing and on the move!

Finca Ixobel

Finca Ixobel was an oasis of calm, serenity and beauty with just enough doses of madness and insanity, to keep it interesting. It was a hard life falling out of a hammock to eat some amazing home cooked (some home grown) and fresh food and then making the big decision; bed or hammo...

For breakfast today we had some yellow colored juice (not pineapple) but I don't know what it was.  I had fresh fruit and a cheese omelette.  The cheese my family buys is a bit odd but good. It looks like tofu and is salty and it squeaks against your teeth when you chew it.  

 In my class I talked to my teacher about moving to a higher le...

No more American style living. We're off to our new friend Fabrizio's home, located in the Lomas Verdes neighborhood. The house is an excellent example of late 50's/early 60's style, one that I am intimately familiar with. Open floor plan and Frank Lloyd Wright touches. Included are avocado colored furnishings, just like was popular in the US at...

El Salvador is a hidden gem. Not yet properly discovered by hordes of tourists but has enough external influence to create enough amenities in little happening enclaves along the very beautiful black volcanic sand Pacific coast. It has so much tourist potential that the government, keen for more foreign investment, offers ten years of tax freedo...

I never want to eat fast food again! In every 4 block radius there are two burger kings, a Wendy's, and a Pizza Hut. The view from our over-priced guest house includes all of the above and a subway. If you look very carefully through the smog, you can just make out the shape of a volcano, but that's just a speculative guess - it could just be a ...

Apres encore une bonne 20aine d'heures de bus necessaires pour traverser le Guatemala et ainsi passer du Belize au Salvador, nous arrivions a la frontiere... Sauf qu'il est 19h et que le dernier bus sense pouvoir nous amener jusqu'a San Salvador vient de partir.... Ne restent alors plus que les militaires et les changeurs de monnaie qui nous har...