Travelling and Rockin' J's We got up early(-ish) today as we had a couple of things to do. We headed out the hostel with our backpacks which as Mae has repeatedly informed me are very heavy!! The bus into town cost 210 colones each, and took about 15mins. We only walked a short way before finding a taxi and asked them to take us to the Cuban embassy. Of course in Costa Rica there is no such thing as an actual address, the best you can get is a set of directio...

Castle Tam Hostel San Jose Not a lot to say about today really, we spent most of it getting some laundry done and trying to plan out our tour of South America. We did venture out to look around a few shops and try to cash a cheque at the bank where we were told we'd need an account to do so. So with this we headed to the post office and after a quick trip to the shop next door as they don't sell envelopes, managed to send the cheque and our postcards home. Wi...

Airports We curled up on the floor for about 3 hours but woke up absolutely frozen, so we went outside to warm up and ended up falling asleep on a bench by the drop off point until about 8am. As it was still raining we went back inside for coffee before getting kicked out again due to the emergency alarm going off. Apparently it was a drill but we were outside in the warm again so I wasnt bothered but all the Americans were, they didnt want to be out when it ...

Trying to fly to Costa Rica Ok so the plan was to leave the last party at about 3 to get to the airport for 4 to catch our flight at 6. We left about on time and stopped for a coffee with Mario before he dropped us off at about 4.20. We went to check in straight away but were told we couldnt board the flight unless we could prove we had an onward flight out of Costa Rica...which we didnt as we hadnt got around to booking one yet! So after discovering there wa...

Dallas Bachata Festival. The next 2 days passed in a blur of dancing, lessons and very little sleep, as you'd expect from any self respecting congress!! Some highlights include our 2 private lessons and the shows. Our 1st private lesson was with Jorge Contreras at 6pm on Sat 15th. We met Jorge in Alaska where he taught at the Festival and really liked his style back then, we also joined in one of his weekly lessons when we went to LA which was really good and...