Archive | May, 2012

Puerto Viejo – the perfect hippy town

After our house sit in Costa Rica we headed south to Puerto Viejo, a hippy surfing town just before the border with Panama. Hearing great things about this place we wanted to stop and chill for a while even though we planned to travel through Costa Rica quickly.. as it’s not the most bank friendly [...]

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Atenas Part 2 – A day at Playa Hermosa

Before our house sit was up we thought it would have been rude not to do the hour drive to the coast, to some of the world’s most famous surfing beaches. We checked out Jaco beach, the beginners beach, and watched a cheer leading competition – the perfect Sunday afternoon activity. Then rode further down [...]

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No more beans and rice!

There comes a time in a travelers life when you get sick of eating out or you simply can’t afford to. We’ve experienced both of these things, the former in Honduras and the latter in Costa Rica, where we are now. So for people out there with limited kitchen facilities, whether it be in a [...]

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House Sit No.3 – Atenas, Costa Rica

This is our third house sit since leaving the UK, having had a great experience in Laguna Beach and then a not so great experience in Roatan, Honduras we were dubious about taking on anymore sits so soon after. However knowing that Costa Rica is very expensive (prices are pretty much the same as Britain [...]

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A road less travelled: Corn Islands / Bluefields to Costa Rica

Before taking this journey, there was very little information online about going from Nicaragua to Costa Rica so here’s our itinerary, I hope it helps! We left Little Corn on Thursday 19th April and arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica on 27th, having been on four boats, four buses, three taxis and two tuk tuks. [...]

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