Hi all! at the moment we are sitting in a campsite right by a beautiful beach with warm water and a temperature of 30 + degrees. It is called Playa Hermosa which rather aptly means beautiful beach. The small bay has cliffs and there are small islands out in the bay which makes it even more picturesque. We have travelled up through Costa Rica and have spent some time in the cloudforest at a place called Monteverde. This was very lovely and we did see some great ...

We seemed to rush through Panama, mainly because it didn't stop raining!!!! it appeared to be a very americanised country, there were huge malls popping up and we saw lots of Mcdonalds . It was strange to be able to use a card to pay for things, it is a long time since we could pay for the petrol with one. There were lots of retired Americans with holiday homes there and we heard more American than Spanish being spoken. We crossed the border on Sunday , it was ...