well this is my last blog entry as i fly home tomorrow morning. I cant believe how fast the 6 weeks have gone. i got up early this morning (well was kinda already awake thanks to 5 guys in my dorm snoring, sharing a room with 12 other people is not fun!) and got a taxis to the old part of the city. the only part that still has colonial buildings. its pretty run down but is slowly getting rebuilt and is fast becoming the trendy area as a lotr of artists ahve move...

right a lot to catch up on. i travelled from Monteverde in the north of costa Rica to panama city in one go. yes i am hardcore, it took in all about 22 hours. it should have taken about 18, but the tyre blew up at about 3am, and bless the driver he changed it all by himself. in the uk, the driver would,ve called for backup and gone to sleep. so very impressed. once in panana city , at last, i was on the search to get tickets to the San Blas islands, where the...

oh boy about 1o hours on 5 different buses. joy. but finally arrived and went to a thermal hot springs spa. oh my god, was soooo good. they had 6 different pools ranging from 55 degrees celcius to 38 degrees. so basically a variety if different temerature baths heated by the very close volcanoe. we even heard it rumble and aw puffs coming out of the top. very cool. went on a canopy tour the next day and so much fun. its in the monteverde nature park, and althou...

travelled to sun jaun del sur, on the pacific coast side cus we heard that turtle nesting season was just beginning. we left about 7pm abd travelled for 1 hour to a protected nature reserve. on arrival we had to walk along the beach just by using night vision as torch lights distract and disorie4ntate the turtles so they may not come ashore. although as i guessed there was a group of americans that had full lights blazing and talking as they do SUPER load so it ...

its been a while, but all the internet connection has been s.l.o.w! and had lack of power to deal with. Mirte and i went to Miraflor and stayed with a local family which was really cool, we went horseriding to a waterfall and generally chilled out and tried to recover from aching thighs!! it was really interestiung to see how the families lived so far away from everything. went back to Estali and stayed there for 1 more night and had the most amazing bread and...