So, our first real day of surfing and we just get bombarded at like 8am with questions by the surf shop about what type of board we use (who knew that there was so many bhoard specifications!?!?) But after a bit of tutting at our blank faces, the guy finally just threw some boards our way - god help us. So we got in a rickity olf jeep and were dropped of at the beach and left to our own devices - how hard can surfing be? This however, should not have been the que...

So we had an early start thursday morning, to catch the apparent 7am bus out of costa rica. however we arrived at the bus station to be told that the bus wasnt until 9.30, times seem to vary and change a lot out here. so we sat and waited and eventually could buy a ticket, and then suddenly the bus was now a 7.20!! so we got on a settled down for the 7hr journey, sleeping most of the way untill finally we arrived at the costa rican/nicaraguan border. we drowsily ...

So, its been a while!But we have been kind of been isolated from civilisation without the internet or phones for the past week!So following from last time, we had our last day in Bocas. It was so sunny and we decided to go with some other people from our hostel - (Rafaelle, a guy from france that we had been hanging out with for a while, and also a dentist! (I managed to find one even out here!) so typically we had a load of geeky dentist chat for a while about h...

So we finally got out of Panama city, THANK god!! While at the bus station Claire(me) made a great investment of a beautiful pink watch, it is water resistant to 50M and has a light!! this has been a beloved possession ever since. So after a bit of shopping we got on the ice bus, air con on max and we had no clothes to keep warm….. 6 hours later we arrived at David (a town not kates new love intererst…) using our best Spanish (saying the name of the tow...

Hey! So we got here eventually, after 26 hours of travelling and here we are sat at a pc already! Well when we stopped off in Miami, it was lovely and hot and sunny, but then we get here and it's just real humid but not even that sunny! But found the hostel and it's dead nice with lots of travellers to tell us were we should go and a nice little cat to keep us company. After an unsuccessful walk to find food we have had to resort to cooking pasta for dinner! Bu...