SATURDAY 29TH JANUARY I got up super early to catch a bus, again. I am not so sure about this 5am lark and its happening more and more often! So, another bus journey and another town, this time it was La Cruz which is described as a wasteland and i think that would be pretty accurate... Still, the hotel had a small swimming pool so I guessed it would be rude not to make the best of it so settled myself down with sunburnt bits covered up for an afternoon of bas...

THURSDAY 27TH JANUARY I was kind of sad to leave the boys and Arenal but the jeep-boat-jeep taxi ride across Laguna Arenal towards Santa Elena was so awesome I soon got over it. The lake and the surrounding hills were so beautiful and the taxi drive was so hilarious as we fought our way up rocky, dusty, potholed narrow roads that i had a great time chatting to the other travellers. As soon as I got to the hostel and dumped my bags one of the pair of beautifull...

MONDAY 24TH JANUARY After a strangely calm trip to heathrow all hell broke loose as I realised that I needed a visa for the states and could not check in without one. No worries, i was assured as ou can just go to the internet cafe and buy one. Except the US website had crashed and I made my flight with 5 minutes to spare. So, 40 pounds down I finally started the journey to New York. Not a good start! I had also totally forgtten how hard travelling is on th...

Woo hoo, a bit late but I wanted to share how awesome my christmas was with you all. It was sop snowy here that I got to take the snowboard out with dave and hit the local village hills and then trapse through the village to the pub for a hot mulled wine and then home for turkey. it was awesome!! hope you all had an awesome time and keep in touch! xxxxx

Tuesday 5th October We arrived a bit earlier than expected to lovely sunny weather and tried to figure out where the hell we were going. We tried but failed to sneak onto the transfer bus, well, there was no way we were going to part with £40 for a 7km ride into town so we started walking but managed to get a lift straight away by an English woman called Andrea who lives on the island after marrying a local boy. After some directions we found our apartment which...