Tamarindo, Costa Rica
There's an obvious but unavoidable downside to visiting a country during the rainy season: it rains. A lot. As all us English types know this isn't the worst thing in the world because it generally goes down the drains and off into the sea or something, and we like to have a bit of a moan about the weather anyway. Unfortunately this doesn't happen in Central America. In Central America it hangs about in the street turning into a big muddy mess and causing no end ...