A Day at the Beach! Waking up feeling much better was like winning the lottery this morning. After some breakfast and catching up on emails I went over to see the English girls and work out a plan for the day. The girls wanted to do a few things in town so we wondered around a bit, brought some watermelon and then decided to head to the famous Santo Domingo beach. On the way to the bus stop we met a Singaporean guy called Ronald who decided he would join us. When...

Nicaragua here I come!! Up at 5am with once again an uneasy belly made me a little nervous for what could be a very long day of travel. My bus left Monteverde at 6am and weaved its way 2.5 hours down and up terrible mountain roads before arriving at the main highway. At the highway I got off the bus and waited nearlly an hour in the steaming heat for a bus heading to the Costa Rican boarder town of Penas Blancas. The bus to Penas Blancas was an old bus with tiny ...

Not Again!! Waking up this morning with another mad-rush to the bathroom and the all to familiar travelers diarrhea is never the way you want to start your day. I got up around 7am to join Luis for breakfast before he left for a visit to a nearby volcano and to organise where we could meet up in Nicaragua. After breakfast I began to feel ill again so jumped back in bed and sleapt the morning away. Forcing myself to eat lunch was a good idea to try and get back so...

Zip-lining woohoo!!! Although I am not feeling 100% I have still decided to give the zip-lining tour a crack today with my mate Luis from Portugal. After another brilliant breakfast we had a few hours to kill before our 10:30am departure to the Monteverde Extreme Park. We were picked up and taken out to the park with about 8 or so other tourists all of us nervously making small talk to keep our minds from what we had got ourselfs into (the others in the van were ...

Sick in Bed!! Not again - in the middle of the night I felt my stomach turn and within seconds I had to make a mad dash to the bathroom. The all to familiar travelers diarrhea was back and to say I am sick of this necessary evil is a huge understatement. After numerous trips to the bathroom I got up and joined my roommates for our free breakfast - not really hungry but also not wanting to miss out on the free breakfast. Breakfast was a feast with granola, roast, ...