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 [...]
Week 4 of house building – San Ramón, Costa Rica
This didn’t start well. Monday turned out to be a bank holiday (Columbus Day) but no-one had mentioned it to the volunteers so we all trooped off to work at 7am. The others got to their empty building site; I got as far as the bus station before meeting the site foreman who was waiting [...]
Whitewater Rafting – Turrialba, Costa Rica
An early finish on Friday provided the opportunity to venture a bit further afield, so rather than heading to Poas we decided on Turrialba with its status as the best place in Costa Rica for white-water rafting. A surprisingly comfortable bus ride later we were deposited on the streets of Turrialba. The hotel we’d picked [...]
