The 'Green Season' in Costa Rica has pretty predictable weather and it's not just rain, rain, rain. The mornings are generally really sunny and it's late afternoon or evening before it starts to rain and when it does, it's a storm to remember. New Zealand storms always seemed quite spectacular but after witnessing the storms in Costa Rica they seem quite tame. With lightening that turns the entire sky from black to shades of blue, thunder that cracks at deafening...

We were a bit unsure whether we would get breakfast or not. It was included in our accommodation but we hadn't actually 'checked in'. Yesterday, we were shown a room and told to check in later but we hadn't got round to it yet. We walked into the restaurant and it was dead...perhaps we weren't getting breakfast as we feared. A quick peek into the kitchen showed a couple of plates of freshly cut fruit, maybe we were expected after all. As we sat down at a table to...

As much as we loved staying in the large house in Manuel Antonio, our time in Costa Rica is limited due to the 25 day visa we were given, it was time to move south. We weren't going too far, only a couple of hours down the coast. With a change of bus in Quepos, we were then able to catch a direct but very busy bus to Uvita. Uvita is an unusual place, it's population would class it as a hamlet but it is very spread out. It's maybe 4 or 5km from one end at the ba...