Mal Pais Beach, Costa Rica. Friday 1-2-13, another beautiful 32ish degree day. It's now been about 10 days at this lovely little beach. Most are spent watching the birds, monkeys, squirrels and iguana in the garden, practicing our Italian, swimming in the rock pools and collecting shells, rocks... or today- for Zac it was sticks- the bigger the better! There are a LOT of sticks on the beach so I was soon lugging around enough for a small campfire!!! These "toug...

Sunday 27th Jan... hmmm.... or maybe Monday.... losing track... Malpais Beach- 32ish hot and sunny. Reeeeeeeally starting to relax here. Its lovely to be in one place for a few weeks- and such a nice place too. Fun and friendly Austrian owner is fantastic with the kids and lovely guests as neighbours. Waved off the one that gave us the shrimps this am so he will be missed. Feels homely here. Beach perfect for kids with a nice variety of rock pools vs fun waves. T...

Australia Day!!! January 26th- Mal Pais Beach, Costa Rica Would you believe that we managed to have "shrimps on the barbie" in Costa Rica for Australia Day!!?Our accommodation owner had organised a BBQ dinner and a fantastic American guy staying next door bought the shrimps to surprise us Aussies!! What a coincidence that it fell on Australian Day! To be honest- we had lost track of the date and it was only due to emails from home that we even remembered it wa...