Not Again!! Waking up this morning with another mad-rush to the bathroom and the all to familiar travelers diarrhea is never the way you want to start your day. I got up around 7am to join Luis for breakfast before he left for a visit to a nearby volcano and to organise where we could meet up in Nicaragua. After breakfast I began to feel ill again so jumped back in bed and sleapt the morning away. Forcing myself to eat lunch was a good idea to try and get back so...

Zip-lining woohoo!!! Although I am not feeling 100% I have still decided to give the zip-lining tour a crack today with my mate Luis from Portugal. After another brilliant breakfast we had a few hours to kill before our 10:30am departure to the Monteverde Extreme Park. We were picked up and taken out to the park with about 8 or so other tourists all of us nervously making small talk to keep our minds from what we had got ourselfs into (the others in the van were ...

Sick in Bed!! Not again - in the middle of the night I felt my stomach turn and within seconds I had to make a mad dash to the bathroom. The all to familiar travelers diarrhea was back and to say I am sick of this necessary evil is a huge understatement. After numerous trips to the bathroom I got up and joined my roommates for our free breakfast - not really hungry but also not wanting to miss out on the free breakfast. Breakfast was a feast with granola, roast, ...

To Monteverde in the North! Amazingly the sun was out very early today and it was looking like it would be a beautiful day here in Puerto Viejo, but for me the time has come to move on. After a morning workout, 2 cups of coffee and breakfast I was all packed and ready to go. The bus station was just down the road from the hostel and when I arrived there were about 20 other backpackers also lined up and waiting for the bus. Today I have to take 2 buses: the first ...

"Pura Vida" Today is the day for the most popular thing to do here in Puerto Viejo; hiring bicycles and cycling the coast road. I was up early as usual and unfortunately the weather wasn't looking great. At around we decided we would go for it even though the weather didn't look like improving; there was supposed to be 3 of us going but at the last minute Sonia from France pulled out because of the weather. We picked up our Retro style Carribean bikes for $5 (per...