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Killing time in Poas
Poas seemed to have a theme of waiting. Waiting for the day to pass, waiting for the rain to stop, waiting for the gates to the national park to open. Unfortunately there was to be no viewing of the volcano crater as the cloud cover was just too thick. The clouds hid a bubbling, green…
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Arenal
The last two days have passed very quickly. I always find that when a trip is nearing its end. It’s a conflict between rushing around and making the most of the last moments, and also wanting to chill out before getting back to everyday life. Actually we’ve managed to do both. We did a big…
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Volcano number two
Dominique excelled herself this morning as the breakfast she served was phenomenal. Homemade chocolate muffins with choc chips in them? I never want to leave. Unfortunately Daniel had other plans so reluctantly we packed up our stuff, took one last photo of the beautiful view and headed off on our penultimate journey to Volcan Arenal.…
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Waterfalls, river trail and monkey poo
After a wet and windy night, we woke to blue sky and the beginnings of a beautiful day. We were served a delicious breakfast of fruit, eggs, warm bread and mango marmalade – all from Daniel and Dominque’s fair hand. Daniel and Dominique come from Belgium and run a very ordered and gorgeous B and…
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On the volcano trail
On the volcano trail Yesterday wasn’t the best of days. Steve had a stomach bug which left him feeling listless, we had a banking incident (too dull to go into but involved a cash dispenser and much wasting of time) , a fruitless drive to a waterfall and I didn’t see a sloth. On the…
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Not mad about Monteverde
A very early alarm call saw us arriving at the Monteverde cloud forest at 7am. For the first time in Costa Rica I wore a fleece and a raincoat and it didn’t feel good. We decided to have a guide as I’m now beginning to believe there are no sloths in Costa Rica and they…
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Moving on to Monteverde
Moving on to Monteverde As is always the way, once you listen to people’s stories, what seems irrational suddenly becomes understandable. So it was with the crazy ladies. The list of rules that so irritated me were a reaction to the abuse and misbehaviour of their initial guests. Desiring a laid back, bohemian feel to…
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Cabo Blanco, Santa Theresa
Decided to go to Cabo Blanco nature reserve today. Feeling chilled so had breakfast(nice) , then packed a rucksack and set off. Naively we expected the road to Cabo Blanco to be tarmaced and easy to negotiate. WRONG. In fact, why would we think that? It was terrible , an 8km drive took 45 minutes.…
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Earthquakes and Drive to Santa Theresa
Well today started with an earthquake. I was cleaning my teeth when I heard a noise that sounded like a spin dryer. In fact it was the bed shaking. No damage – shaken but not stirred. By the way it’s a myth that dogs sense an earthquake coming, they all started barking after the tremor,…
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Exploring around playa Samara
Monkeys, crocodiles and river crossings We arrived at Playa Samara yesterday after a long journey from Jaco. Samara Bay is a pleasant, sweeping curve of sand and the little town consists of one Main Street and a couple of side streets. Perfect holiday location if you’ve got young kids but we haven’t so time to…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
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- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
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- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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