Every cloud has a silver lining and our disappointing stop meant that we had to quickly find another place to stay. We had previously bookmarked a place in the mountains above the Osa Peninsula called Toucan Valley but had initially ruled it out as it would have been a long journey to get there. However, […]

This should hopefully be one of those rare occasions when I succeed in writing a short post. From Uvita, we were inching our way towards the Osa Peninsula where we were hoping to go on a mangrove tour and then assess if we wanted to delve further into the wilderness. To allow ourselves a bit […]

All of a sudden these posts have come perilously close to being up to date and in the present – with this post only a week or two behind our current position! Just to blend the 2 points in time together let me mention that I’m now sat on the balcony of our stay in […]

This post is a bit of an aside from the main narrative of our adventure in Latin America taking a quick look at the various bites, stings and other things which have peppered our, or more specifically, my time here. Please Note: this post does not contain a lovely gallery of tropical beaches but rather […]

After our first two weeks on the farm (one shadowing Sophia and the other going it alone) we started to settle into a good routine. The early mornings had become an easy habit to follow once my body-clock had got into the rhythm. I’d put together a spreadsheet to manage the incoming orders to take […]

After that first week of shadowing Sophia on the farm we were definitely about to be thrown in at the proverbial deep end. Late morning on Sunday I drove them down to the bus station and dropped them off for the beginning of their own adventure and break away from the farm and then made […]