Suffering slightly from the previous nights excesses we rolled out of bed and decided the only way to wake up was to take a coffee tour. When I arrived in Costa Rica I really wasn’t a fan of coffee, but the quality here is amazing, and the coffee is entirely lacking in bitterness. After taking [...]
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Final week – San Ramón, Costa Rica
Monday Guillermo, the owner and builder of the house, needed to go into town so left his labourer Frank in charge. Frank turned out to be a complete slave driver so by the time Guillermo returned we’d done a huge amount of work, but all wandered off to the local Pulperia to get ice-creams. By [...]
Back to the beginning – La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Friday After a short morning at work I arranged a 15 person taxi to La Fortuna, where we spent my first weekend in Costa Rica. Last time I missed the chance to see lava at night, so we jumped in a taxi and drove out toward Arenal National Park where we joined a bunch of [...]
Week 7 – San Ramón, Costa Rica
Monday After a long morning mixing concrete and digging trenches for waste water pipes I had to use a chisel attached to a long metal pole to knock holes through the back two walls for the sewage pipes, which ripped a number of muscles in my shoulder. Tuesday 7 new volunteers arrive in town, out [...]
Week 6 in the San Ramón house – San Ramón, Costa Rica
Tuesday Started back at the dangerous building site, but following a visit from the area co-ordinator have decided to stay after he told us the President is visiting next week. I assume it’s El Presidente of Costa Rica but should have checked. Will be underwhelmed if it’s the president of the local supermarket or something. [...]
Protected: Lo que pasa en la gira se queda en la gira – Costa Rica
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Random Gathering – Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
Having left the building site until I could be moved on Tuesday we had 4 days to go somewhere a little further away. A number of other volunteers had left the day before and travelled south to Manuel Antonio, a national park beach on the Pacific coast. Following their rave reviews and photos, we decided [...]
There goes the neighbourhood – San Ramón, Costa Rica
Monday Got to the building site ready to meet the family who were getting the house we’d just built only to find no-one there. I hung around for 30 minutes after which the electrician and glazier arrived. The electrician cycled off to find the site foreman and came back alone to tell the rest of [...]
Carrion Luggage – Managua, Nicaragua
A slightly unenthusiastic start led to a trip to the MetroCentro mall to buy some clothes, replacing those damaged during the building work. Many of the smaller shops were closed on Sunday, but the main department store (ominously called Carrion) was open and looked like a slightly shabby Debenhams, which is good enough for my [...]
Top tour guide – Granada, Nicaragua
In a last minute effort to get out of Managua I tried to book on an organised day trip to Granada. These only really cater for groups so the price was rather prohibitive but it turned out that the German hotel owner’s daughter was a trainee tour guide eager to practice her English so we [...]
