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 a [...]
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Only 1 day to go then – Naranjo, Costa Rica
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 now [...]
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 other [...]
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 of which 3 [...]
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.
Also found [...]
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 us [...]
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 from [...]
