Yet another way to San Jose
Turns out everyone knows
Hello. I’m in Costa Rica, with Helen. Are you interested in how we got here? If so, here’s a Spanish language warning I grabbed off the in-flight entertainment. I’m normally so well prepared for my trips, but this one has…
Toucan play that game
Not a lot of ocelot
I’m not convinced sleeping until just after midnight counts as “sleeping right through”. Midnight here is 6am GMT. Damn you, jet lag. A couple of hours messing around on the iPad and I fell back to sleep, only to wake…
Altitude adjustment
See you crater
Tell you what, jet lag is great for blogging at a time when there’s nothing else to do. It’s nice not to be in a hurry, what with it being just gone 5am. Yesterday this was not the case, however;…
Carts and crafts
Helen, a handcart.
Let me get this out of the way first: most photos in this story were taken by Helen. I’m going to stop calling this jet lag. We’re just early risers and early sleepers while here. There’s no nightlife to speak…
A Bird In The Hand
Toucan do it if you really want
I’m getting really annoyed with Travelex. No, not getting, I already am annoyed. The ‘Supercard’ is a kind of proxy Mastercard, linked to any number of credit and debit cards you like, especially for travelling abroad as you only pay…
Welcome To The Jungle
You’re gonna Fly
Bear with me here. A fair bit of time has passed since Thursday night and while I have a pile of notes in my excellently dog-eared notepad, everything is a bit of an overwhelming blur. I’m reasonably sure Friday started…
Wild Things
Walk on the wild side
These 5am starts are fun. No, seriously. OK so maybe back in Alajuela it felt a bit weird, but here it’s sensible… when you’ve got an 0545 dawn boat tour to go on. On the B&B decking a man named…
Village People
There’s a place you can go
Sunday, eh? Day of rest, apparently. Bit annoying therefore to be woken up at just gone 1am, rather than the more customary 5am. Not due to animals or jet lag or owt though, but the absolute pummeling rain. It’s an…
Dumb Ways To Fly
La Fortuna Favours THe Brave
Monday. Time to leave Tortuguero. Honestly, had there been more to do around here then perhaps we’d have felt a bit meh about it, but we didn’t. Given our appetite for the more adventurous stuff you can do around here…
You can stick yer Costa Rica Newest
23 hours from Buster
(Warning: text heavy, photo light) The thing about 5am alarms is that they’re useless if you wake up at 2.30am and don’t get back to sleep. Ordinarily I’d have been annoyed but since that meant 8.30am UK time, I figured…