The night was windy and the doors on our apartment rattled all night. What's odd about this holiday is that we have both been dreaming a lot - a thing neither of us often do. We hypothesise that it is because when we are at home, we go to bed late (mainly due to Joan's councillor duties which means we eat late) and rise at 5.30 am. We never actually get to the REM stage when you dream. Oddly enough Kevin is reading a novel where dreams feature a lot too. We'r...

Another moving day - this time north to Rincon de la Vieja National Park. We said goodbye to the lovely garden in Bijagua and Marya, the owner. The weather here has been consistently wet and windy and we have never had a clear view of either volcanoes. The drive to Rincon de la Vieja was surprisingly uneventful. We shopped in Liberia and then headed towars the national park. The road became quickly rough with rocks and potholes. Costa Rica is very free of l...

Costa Rica is 6 hours behind UK time. We managed to stay in bed till 6 am local time before getting up for breakfast in the hotel cafe. The weather was humid and the salt cruet had almost as much rice in it to stop the salt turning into saline solution. We got ready to go out - sun hats, light tops and sunglasses. But within seconds of stepping outside we were back for fleeces and waterproof jackets. There was a robust wind blowing and also San Jose is over ...

The chickens had been delivered to Kevin's parents on Thursday. On Friday morning Kevin went to work in Hucknall and Joan dropped off Jenson and the meezers to their respective lodgings. We had a taxi booked to Gatwick as we're returning overnight so would not be safe to drive and heaven knows what the trains will be like on New Year's Eve. We used Tesco vouchers to pay for our stay at the Gatwick Hilton. The Canon Christmas corporate bash was on and the hote...