Well, 14 hours is a very, very long flight and not one to be recommended! Suffice it to say that we won’t be doing many more - after we get home that is.The only upside was that having booked a Japan Airlines flight, we got access to the BA loungs at Heathrow which made the pre flight wait much more comfortable. This is a benefit that we wouldn’t have got if we had booked a BA flight. Ridiculous! Anyway, after a 14 hour overnight flight we managed to arri...

Well, the decision was finally made. We have decided to risk going on a cruise. After many years when we have convinced ourselves that it wasn’t for us, we think it may be! We have decided that our first one will be round Japan - having decided that travelling around the country on our own was probably not a great idea and that a ship board journey would make life easier for us we are going for it! So we are to be off in the next few days, flying to Tokyo, sp...

Iguana Green basilisk (Jesus Christ lizard) Sloth Tent bat Red eyed tree frog Crocodile fish Termites Porcupine (back end) Jacana Little blue heron Green backed heron Turtles Snake bird Green macaw Vultures Greater heron Tiger heron Howler monkey Osprey Toucan Bullfrog Rhino nosed grasshopper Coral snake Crab Langoustine Army ants Leaf cutter ants Walking spider Toad ‘Campo’ spider Tiny frogs Various grasshoppers 2 fat herons ...

Costa Rica is one of the most Eco friendly and eco diverse nations. This is mainly due to the preservation of rain forests and reforestation and many national parks to control and manage this In other ways (daily life) it is probably less advanced than many others We were told that the country has a very high standard of living e.g. free education and health care but in rural areas especially there still seems to be a lot of poverty Costa Rica does not have a...

So, I mentioned the Sushi restaurant. As it happened Lin wasn’t feeling great and so decided to give it a miss. As a result Andy was a Billy no mates and ate on a table for one. It was very nice Sushi though! This was supposed to be a quiet few days following the activity of the last 10 days or so and that was how it turned out. We decided to spend the next day by the pools - more accurately one of the five available. But first we had to find an ATM with ...