Had dinner with Roman Schweizer, how turns to be a great and very interesting guy. After having worked for a swiss bank, he became a world-class athlete, and now he's working for the swiss TV (in management, but occasionally also commenting). He'll also be around for four weeks, and I hope we have the chance to catch up after that some time, for example surfing in Barcelona or the Canaries. We had dinner in the "Patagonia", a relatively expensive but really good...

I've had breakfast with Christina (the german girl, but she's a psychologist living in Zürich) and Manuela (a medical doctor from St. Gallen) and met Christian and Julia, two more swiss (coincidence?), who also stayed in the same hotel and are going on to Tamarindo as well. We are picked up by a crappy little bus and set off for what will be a 6-7 hour trip to Tamarindo. It's not far, but the roads here suck ass, even the "Panamericana", which is the main road s...

I've left Berlin for Frankfurt where I stayed for one night in what with high probability was the most dangerous part of my entire trip - a crappy russian Hotel in the middle Frankfurt's hot spot between several Bordellos. Don't ask me how I ended up there, but the place was highly recommended on hotel.de (I wonder by who?) After a long trip with Delta (of course I got the middle seat) via Atlanta, I finally crashed in my hotel in San Jose, CR, which is surprisi...