Though I wasn`t that impressed with Panama city, San Jose now takes its place as being the worst capital city I`ve visited so far. It started badly when the taxi driver refused to take me to my prefered choice of hostel, assuring me it was booked up due to the final of Costa Rica`s football cup was being played that day. Strange, I thought, that they would choose to play a final on a Wednesday. We arrived at his recomendation of a hostel, which was expensive, emp...

As the name suggests, Costa Rica is an expensive country. I tried to save a bit by choosing to sleep in a hammock for only $5. It all worked out apart from the fact that I couldn´t really sleep in it. Puerto Viejo is apparently one of the best party locations in Central America but strangely everywhere seemed to be closed by midnight and the only party around after that was people getting stoned on the beach. In fact everyone seemed to want nothing more than to ...