Hi everyone, last weekend I went to Samara for a couple of days away with Isabel & Roman. It is very quiet with a beautiful beach and we spent most of the weekend sleeping and eating! Shake Joe's became our favourite hangout, a very chilled out restaurant right on the beach with lots of hammocks and massive high wooden beds to sit on! On Sunday, we felt rather guilty that we had done nothing at all active so we made up this by kayaking to a nearby island ...

So last weekend was quite sad because two of my closest friends from school left, Mike and Martina. Friday night was spent celebrating our last night all together. Then Saturday morning, me and Isabel had to be up at 6am because we were escaping Tamarindo and going to Monteverde, a cloud forest. Feeling rather fragile, we just about managed to survive the 5 hour bus journey. We stayed in a cute little town called Santa Elena, very different to what we have been ...

Hi everyone, firstly thank you for all my bday emails, messages, cards and presents! I had a great weekend, everyone here made my birthday really special. Celebrations started on Friday night...we went to Crazy Monkey bar/club and my friends got the live band to sing happy birthday to me! Then we did a countdown at midnight to my birthday! Saturday, 10 of us plus 6 surfboards got a minibus to a nearby beach called Playa Avillanas which is beautiful and really s...

So I ventured outside of Tamarindo for the weekend with my friend Martina and went to a place called Rincon De La Vieja, which is about 3hours away. We arrived at the little family run lodge on Saturday - a complete contrast to Tamarindo! It was in the middle of nowhere, surrounding by mountains and the views were amazing. We did a walk on our own in the afternoon, although two of the lodge's dogs came along too! Across bridges, over tree trunks, past banana...

Hi guys, hope all is good with everyone! Happy birthday to Amanda and Katie! Last week, it worked out that I was only the only person in my class so I had one on one lessons which was great, normally you would pay lots more to have individual classes at the school. I am really enjoying it but it's very hard sometimes too, I HATE IRREGULAR VERBS!!! Sometimes we get to have our classes on the beach or at the market to practice our spanish by talking to locals...