27/12/09 - day 18. after a very sticky nights sleep, got up at 5.10 and fumbled around in the dark hoping i had everyting packed. forgot my apples, left a pair of shorts behind, lost a padlock and a pen. lesson here is, dont pack your stuff up in the dark. put the light on even if it means waking up every other b***** in the dorm at least this way you wont lose your favourite, most comfortable pair of shorts you´ve ever owned. walked with chris (geezer in th...

26/12/09 - day 17. got up around 9, free breakfast, still hungry, bought breakfast. straight to the beach as was fast becoming standard procedure. i may be giving the impression santa teresa has nothing else to offer but this isnt the case. you can get surf lessons, hire quad bikes, go to neighbouring beaches, go on a boat trip, etc but i was very aware of my budget for this place which is the most expensive im gonna come across by a long way, i think!, on my t...

25/12/09 - day 16. xmas day thought it could gave been any other for me. very few decorations around santa teresa that i could see. i got up around 8ish, and went to make a surprisingly cheap phone call home. afterwards, i pretty much replicated yesterday and beached it until about 3pm. went back to the hostel for food, hammocked up for a while then headed back to the beach for what i was told was a cracking sunset. the clouds scuppered that idea tho. as de...

24/12/09 - day 15. got up around half 8 after a very rare thing indeed - an iuninterrupted night's sleep! temperature seemed to dip a little at night which helped and the fan in the dorm actually did it's job! the other people in the hostel were pretty cliquey though. and swedish. and they were all mates. this made it kinda hard to socialise as i dont speak swedish. and that was all they spoke. had the free breakfast of toast and jam, exchanged a book, gave ...

23/12/09 - day 14. up at 5am, taxi to the coca-cola bus station - i had been told and had read that walking there at that time wasnt safe - and waited for the 6am bus to Santa Teresa. there were LOADS of people queueing for the bus and they had to get a 2nd one to take all the people. bus left at half 6 and after a couple hours we got to puntarenas which is where i had to get a ferry across to paquera before getting back on the bus for a futher 2 hours to compl...