It was a beautiful if at times slightly bumpy (standard Costa Rica roads) drive today up over the green hills (looked a bit like home at times) and down alongside Arenal Lake to the town of La Fortuna. The lake was man made in the 70s with a damn to generate...
We managed to squeeze in one final beach body boarding session before we had breakfast, packed up the car and headed off from our Matapalo Beach love affair. Katie was especially sad to say farewell to our pet sloth and the numerous Iguanas living in the garden. Our...
We must have got used to the roads, bumping our way back from Drake’s Bay to the main road heading to our next stop felt nowhere near as bad as the way out! A few hours west and we left the Osa Peninsula and arrived at Matapalo, a tiny little place on the coast with a...
There was no need for the 5am alarm, the howler monkeys started at least an hour earlier, and being the 2nd loudest animals on the planet, after the blue whale, we heard them even though our host believed they are about 1km away. It was a pretty unsettled night...
We set off from Panama bright an early after another beautiful breakfast of fresh fruit, eggs, pancakes, juice and coffee…. As seems to be par for the course in Latin America. We opted for a taxi to Paso Canoas, the Frontera (border crossing) between Panama and Costa...
A prompt 5am started our day to catch the bus to Boquete. We were nice and early (family Nyemecz style) so after a bit of waiting headed to board our bus – only we couldn’t as despite having bought tickets they wouldn’t let us actually leave the bus terminal and until...
Greetings from Panama, the land of the Canal, not the hat. Despite their name, Panama Hats are not actually from Panama, they were made famous from being sold to wealthy tourists who were visiting Panama and featuring in US films, however they are actually from...
Well, despite feeling it was only yesterday when we arrived, it is time to say farewell to South America already. It is actually almost 7 weeks since we landed into Buenos Aires and what a hugely rewarding adventure it has been. We spent our final day in Quito, not...
The bus to Quito was a comfortable, if a rather stop / start affair, as we were treated to all sorts of sales pitches and performances, including a young lad pitching a hand cream made of entirely natural ingredients which is also proven to treat migraines, reduce...
The day was finally here, we were off to the place of dreams, the Galápagos Islands! Expectations were high, everyone gushes about the islands, could it really be that perfect…? We can definitely say yes it was, unlike anywhere else we’ve been, but also very different...
