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...