April 2009
8 posts
Apr 27th
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Pura Vida
Hello! Yesterday was our half way mark! very excited about it all, to celebrate the momentous occassion Ben has given me my first proper bodyboarding lesson which was really fun once I got over the salt water in my eyes thing. We are currently in Tamarindo in the north of Costa Rica, after San Jose we went to Santa Teresa but to be honest it wasn’t my cup of tea so after 2 nights we...
Apr 27th
The best shower ever!
Hi all We have just arrived in the beautiful Country of Costa Rica after 5 days in Panama, the first things we did when arriving at our hostel were buy and cook food containing fresh vegetables and also have a very welcomed hot shower each! We left Panama City a day early having only stayed a night due to the heat and atmosphere we decided it would be much nicer to head to Boca del Toro on the...
Apr 20th
A police escort!
Its only been a few days since my last entry but the story of getting from Lima to Panama is rather traumatic for me so I thought I would share! We left the hostel at 8pm on the 14th in a private taxi to the airport, when booking it we thought it would just be the normal beaten up taxi but as it turns out the hostel have a friend who they use for airport pick-ups/drop-offs. He is a policeman! We...
Apr 16th
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Apr 14th
I am only going to write Machu Picchu once!
So it is done, we went to the place with the ruins got very wet and since then I have written the words so many times it is making me dizzy. After the early start (hostel owner got up and made us breakfast!) we arrived and headed straight to the second mountain called Waynapicchu, an Irish guy in Arica had suggested it was worth the walk which turned out to be 1.20hrs up really steep steps during...
Apr 14th
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Apr 8th
Adios Chile, Ola Peru!
Since last writing on here a lot has happened, we left Iquique after a very drunken night at the hostel celebrating a girl called Jessie’s birthday (messy pictures to feature on Flickr when Ben gets around to it). We travelled to Arica after this to spend a few days exploring and letting Ben surf a wave called El Gringo which I have been told is very famous! We tried a local delicacy which...
Apr 8th