After la Fortuna, we headed to the Carribean Coast. There are two coasts in Costa Rica, one on the Pacific Ocean and one on the Carribean. The Pacific coast is probably want you think of when you think of Costa Rica beaches - white sand, blue sea and lots of weathly American tourists. Although beautiful it is very expensive and currently in 'winter' (which means its still warm but rains a lot of the day). So we decided to head to the Carribean coast, not as built...

From Montevede we booked the 'jeep-boat-jeep' transfer (actually a minibus-boat-minibus) to La Fortuna. La Fortuna is a small town built around an active volcano. We arrived about noon, so decided to spend the afternoon walking to a waterfall. It was only 6km away and we thought it would be a nice stroll, we didn't really take into account how hot it was or how hilly the walk would be. Jolly was so sweaty that most people who drove past in a taxi (the smart ones...

We had to get up at 2:30am to get our flight out of New York (I was stoked about that), so we arrived in San Jose in the morning but we booked on an afternoon bus to Monteverde or 'The cloud rainforest'. The bus stop was located at a Dennys restaurant (Grand slam, hot fudge cake, and oreo sundae - yes that Dennys) a couple of kilometres from the airport so to get there we had to pretend we were staying at the Holiday Inn and get on their shuttle bus (the hotel...

Our first day in the big apple was quite a day. With our 'empire state of mind' we checked into our hotel early in the morning, it's on times square, really nice. Then started our first tour, a food tour of Greenwich Village where we sampled falafel, two types of pizza (crab and artichoke!), rice balls and cup cakes as well as getting a bit of history about the area, it was delicious! We then headed back to the hotel to get snazzed up because I'd told sarah the...

This was the part of Spain I was most looking forward to and although it was lovely, it managed to rain the whole time we were there except for one day. We timed it just right for our chill out beach day, got sunshine all day and had a great time playing in the surf and being beach bums! San Sebastian is a lovely - long white sand beaches, surfers and boutique shops. It was really busy with tourists, but none the less a picturesque seaside town.