Villas Corcovado Puntarenas

... It is a lot being in about 7 hours of Spanish classes a day, my brain gets so tired at the end of the day and my appetite is all of a sudden through the roof. Because I’m thinking in so much Spanish I’m constantly burning calories! Haha yeah! J Anyways, I really really really enjoy my classes and the people in them. I have 5-7 people in all of my classes so there is tons of one-on-one help if (when) need be. In my dance class ...

We did a morning trip to a nearby area known for Maccaws. Saw one green one. We stopped at a river known for Crocs. There were about 20 adult crocs on the river bed which we viewed from the bridge above. Frightening creatures. We spent a bit of time on the beach in the little town and bussed back to the resort by 11am. Mom is having a siesta. The sound of birds and waves are very relaxing. This is an excellent wind down after a bit ...

... 5 and they FedEx'd the money directly to the house, very cool. One example is that when we left the exchange rate was 565.67 Colones to the Dollar, but a restaurant here is only changing at 485! Another cool tool is the Big Mac Index. It shows that in the US, the average cost of a Big Mac is $3.57 while in Costa Rica, the US equivalent is $3.1945 so the Dollar is doing fairly well here.

... Det har dog kun været fordi vi har haft 3 dage med regn og blæst - man skulle næsten tro at lærerne havde bestilt det dårlige vejr, for at få os i gang med at læse lidt mere! ;) I morgen er det onsdag og det er lig med "La barra night". La barra er er et sted vi går i byen hver onsdag hvor de spiller masser af salsa og merengue, som er de mest populære danse her. Sidste onsdag dansede jeg en masse med nogle af de lokale, de er SÅ dygtige. Man burde tage alle danske ...

... parasites. The plan was to get down to about 12 meters and firmly plant ourselves on the bottom and wait for up to 40 minutes. Fortunately we didn't have to wait that long as after about 20 minutes or so a monster of a Silver tip shark turned up - he must have been 3 to 3.5 meters in length so had a fairly intimidating presence as he swirled overhead, fortunately as he wasn't too shy photographic evidence was obtained of this monster size shark! 30/11/08 - This ...

... KIND OF COMICAL, PICTURE A 10-12 DEGREE CITY STREET, STEEPER THAN ITS SOUNDS, WITH A CHEVY 4X4 PULLING A 6X12 TRAILER WITH A SEMI TRACTOR SITTING ON IT BACKWARDS. SEMI HAS NO REAR TIRES BUT THE FRONT HAS THEM AND IS HANGING OVER THE BACK OF THE TRAILER ON THE GROUND. BEHIND THAT IS A BACKHOE PUSHING THE WHOLE MESS BUT SINCE ITS RAINING THE CHEVY HAS NO TRACTION AND IS ...

... first bus in the morning heading to Monteverde, land of the famous cloud forest reserve. We came here to do the canopy tour, which is something like 14 zip lines and a tarzan swing through the cloud forest. Also, we might see some nature, but we´ve seen so much already that we´re getting kind of jaded. Upon arrival, the bus dropped us off in the middle of town and immediately about 5 people came up to us trying to get us to go to their hotels. Right in front of ...

... the board comes crashing into my head. But I was able to knell and ride in a few white waters. Which made up for the semi-concussion. It was a great day sunburn and all!! I just returned to Puntarenas a few hours ago, Saturday. When I got to Liberia there were absolutely no buses today or tomorrow to San Jose or Puntarenas. They stopped all transportation Thursday and Friday, they sold no alcohol in observance on Good Friday. Seriously practically no one in ...

... a beach is if there is no swell, but we made the best of it splitting our time between surfing and playing Settlers, Prince and Paupers and Dutch Blitz. Although we were a little worried about getting back to the airport in time for Bill and Cheryl´s flight because of a water-down gas from our ¨buddy¨ Muco we ended up making it to San Jose with plenty of time and said our sad good-bye´s as Jules and I headed south to get to know Costa Rica and Panama better.

... with the ancient vine up it is an old fig tree. No-one knows exactly how old as there's simply no way to tell. You can't count rings as there aren't any - the rain forest has no seasons and thus no annual growth spurt to form the rings. And carbon dating doesn't work because yada yada blah Arlene bought a fantastic necklace from those Indians yada yada. *sigh* There are some 70-odd species of fig in the forest ...