2/1/10 - day 24. AWFUL nights sleep thanks to the **** in the bed next to mine snoring his head off (at one point i thought literally) all night long!!! im pretty sure it was the loudest ive ever experienced. and the most relentless. woke up at 1am, 3am, 5am and half 6 because of him. to quote john gregory when discussing dwight yorke's request to join man utd - "i think if i'd have had a gun with me and the time i would have shot him". so when i go...

1/1/10 - day 23. woke up about half 9 feeling rather rough. got up at half 10, had a bit of breakfast and then used their free internet to catch up on blogging. i was feeling pretty lazy all day, and it passed pretty uneventfully but in the afternoon i did wander into the city to see if anything was going on. there wasnt. rest of the afternoon was spent lounging on the sofa and reading. think im gonna struggle to fill tomorrow's extra day! spent most of the e...

31/12/09 - day 22. got up at 7 to go down to the bus station to get my ticket to nicaragua. i wanted it for the 2nd january but there werent any seats left so had to go on the 3rd. was pretty annoying i really didnt need or want the extra day in san jose. got bak to the hostel around half 8 and had breakfast. around 11AM me and another geezer in the dorm - carl from australia - walked into a suburb of san jose called zapote where they have "fiestas de za...

30/12/09 - day 21. woke up with a hangover and felt a bit sick. as i havent been drinking very much very often, i was feeling the effects of the previous night. dragged myself from my bed about 10am when i was feeling a bit better and ate some cereal i bought the day before. an aussie dude (carl) who´d arrived late the previous night and i went into the city to check out mercado central and mercado borbon (i couldnt see biscuits of any description in there t...

29/12/09 - day 20. woke up very early for some reason at half 6. didnt feel that tired, but did feel particularly hungry so got up and waited til 7 for them to put the breaskfast out so i could gorge myself. something had caught my eye when i had been researching san jose the previous night. it was that you can do a bungy jump off a bridge just outside the city. i had told myself i would only do it if had the time before i left costa rica or had time to fill....