Apologies for the orientation of the volcano! Just to go back for a moment, on our return taxi journey back from the town yesterday the driver, having established that we were English, stated that he had two questions for us. 1. Was Robin Hood a real person? 2. Was King Arthur real? Now I’ve had a few chats with cab drivers over the years, but this one had me floored I must admit! I decided to go for maybe/maybe not for the first and a definite yes for the...

So, to carry on, we have arrived at Mawamba Lodge by boat followed by a nice lunch and a chill by the pool. An easy start the next day with a 9.30 garden walk with Brian, our guide. He talked about the tropical plants and some of their special characteristics and went on to spot Iguanas is the trees and a green basilisk. As I mentioned this is colloquially known as a Jesus Christ lizard because when scared he will paddle his back legs so fast that it looks like...

I am sorry that it has been a bit quiet on the blog front for the last few days. This has been caused by two factors - being a bit busy and rubbish wifi connections. So here we go on a bit of a catch up. Arrived in San Jose, the capital, in the late afternoon and were met by our guide to be taken to the hotel which was about 30 minutes from the airport, passing all the Christmas lights in the main street of the city on the way. The grandly named El Presidente...

After 3 nights at Mawamba Lodge it was time to move on to our next destination. 9 am pick up for the boat trip back along the waterways. Woke to heavy rain! However, by the time we had packed and had breakfast, it had stopped and things were looking up. Luggage went on one boat, passengers on another and off we set. Along the way, through the tropical rain forest we experienced tropical rain! With no side screens down on the boat, Andy got mildly moist from...

Well here we are,almost a third of the way into the flight and still 8 hours to go! And it’s daytime so the chance of a sleep is probably negligible. So what else can I do to while away a few minutes then bring you up to date? Dan and Helen took us to Farnborough to get the train to Gatwick where we had booked into (where else) the Premier Inn! From the station to the North terminal via the shuttle is all undercover and all you have to do is cross the road...