30th September 2009 - 2nd October 2009 During our travels across Costa Rica we stopped over in San Jose for a night at Hostel Bakau (the best hostel ever!) where we met a couple driving a combie van. They were advertising for amigos to join them - we just had to pay for some petrol. It all seemed too good to be true as we had wanted to travel in a van so the next morning we jumped in and drove to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca on the Carribean side of Costa Rica. ...

29th September 2009 - 30th September 2009 Tamarindo is a touristy place. So first thing's first we found a place to stay then retreated in the air con of Subway and got some western food into us. That night we had amazing meals of fish and pasta which we shared as always and enjoyed the live music in the restaurant. The musician played guitar and drums then used a special device to make his music play back live so he could then sing and play guitar to it. The n...