Day 5 - Started early as we had a day trip booked but before that began we had to head back to the main street to get some extra money out for our tour and also drop our bags at our new accommodation. Then we got on the bus and started our day tour. First thing on the agenda was the Doka coffee estate. Doka is located about an hour away from San Jose up in the hills below a volcano. High altitudes and volcano soil equals great coffee growing and also what they ca...

Day 4 - Ventured back into the centre of San Jose to take up the offer from our city tour guide to do a day tour of Cartago. So we jumped on a bus and headed to Cartago with the ticas - locals. Cartago use to be the capital of Costa Rica. It's much cleaner and friendlier than San Jose. We headed to the market were Steven - our guide bought us a number of different fruits to try and had a traditional Costa Rican meal - tomalis. Tomalis is only made in the Novembe...

Day 3 - Slow start to day 3 as it was a Sunday and most attractions and museums etc are closed. It was also raining most of the day so we weren't in too much of a rush to get out and about. The day was filled with a fair bit of wondering and a trip to the gold museum and that's about it. So to fill in the gap I will tell you a few things we have found out about Costa Rica. 1. Costa Rica does not have a military force. It's one of 23 countries to not have a mil...

Day 2 - We landed in San Jose late last night and after getting through boarder control we headed to get our bags from baggage claim. Got to baggage claim grabbed my bag and stood and waited for Mel's to come around however Mel's didn't come around. Instead it decided to stay the night in Dallas. So after spending some time sorting out getting the bag back - which is hopefully going to be tomorrow, we headed out through customs to meet out transfer guy. Our drive...

Day 1 / 2 - Departed / arrived. It's been a long haul on the planes and surprisingly I haven't slept much and still been fairly awake. It seems these days I manage to function on little sleep plus it was a good chance to catch up on some movies. However I did watch Oddball which made me sad as I am already missing Tuls a lot. The Qantas Airbus A330-200 was an amazing aircraft, it looked fairly new and was really clean. It was enormous and it seriously felt like ...