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I've spent the past few days relaxing at Henry and Martha's house. It's so nice to have nothing to do, and not need to get up early in the morning!!
Highlights included
a trip to Andrea's sister Maria's boyfriend's house up in the hills overlooking San Jose. Possibly the biggest house I have ever been in, it wouldn't look out of place in Beverly Hills. Amazing!
Catching the bus into San Jose with Sharon and Steve (Canadians also staying with Henry and Martha) for some shopping on my own. The markets are amazing, and managed to buy things for myself instead of presents for other people. Ooops!
Henry and Martha's cooking. Awesome!
Getting more random bits of sunburn, and then the weather totally breaking, and the sun going away. And then thinking that 22 degrees is quite chilly....
Going to the bank to pay my departure taxes and being scared of the guards with machine guns. And laughing at the sign in the bank
"for security reasons, the use of the following items are prohibited; baseball caps, sunglasses, guns, and mobile phones"
All in all I've had an amazing time in Costa Rica. it's a beautiful country, full of lovely, friendly people. San Jose is perhaps not the safest city I've visited, but I'm glad I've been here.
There are a few crazy things about this country.
It gets dark at about 6, and it goes from light to dark in about 5 minutes.
The sun can be too hot to lie out in at 830 in the morning, but it gets weaker at about 2, and by 3 it's not strong enough to tan under. This makes sunbathing quite tricky.
You can't flush toilet paper down the toilet. Yuck.
They don't have bins on the street, but there is rubbish everywhere. Go figure.
Food here is super cheap. The best deal I got was lunch for 2000 colones, about 2 pound fifty. Fish and chips, with salad, fresh pineapple juice, and a pastry. Wow.
Everything is served with rice and beans, or rice with beans. Even breakfast.
They have loads of weird fruits here that don't exist anywhere else, like guanabana, which is apparently called soursop in English, not that anyone what what that is.
People have guns. But the police have bigger guns, as do security guards at supermarkets. But the sign says you aren't allowed guns in the bank, so that makes it ok.
Cuba now, and more weird customs to get used to!
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