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Enter the Osa: Magnificent Mangroves

Ross Evans — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 13:02:21 +0000

Our time staying at Toucan Valley had provided us with the space and opportunity to make a number of decisions. Happy with the place that we had booked for our return to the UK, we were optimistic about having that time in a new place before we went back to our own home. That was […]

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Finally Finding the Right Kind of Condo (Plus an Amazing Zip-line!)

Ross Evans — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:23:00 +0000

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, […]

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Paradise Without a Pool…

Ross Evans — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 02:45:25 +0000

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 […]

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Adrift in Uvita…

Ross Evans — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 13:38:00 +0000

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 […]

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Bites, Stings & Other Things…

Ross Evans — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 21:59:40 +0000

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 […]

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Life on the Farm: The Movie

Ross Evans — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 03:06:30 +0000

During the first couple of weeks on the farm I fell behind with my writing as we were so caught up in the busy schedule of learning to do everything and then getting to grips with doing it all! Worried that I wouldn’t be able to remember everything when the time came we set about […]

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Farm Fun Finishes

Ross Evans — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:30:00 +0000

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 […]

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Cheese & Other Challenges…

Ross Evans — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 01:43:47 +0000

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 […]

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Who Wants to be a Farmer?

Ross Evans — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:57:17 +0000

When we first arrived back in Costa Rica a few weeks ago I was making an effort to get our blog caught up to the present. I was doing fairly well. We came back here so we could spend a month or so looking after a farm near Perez Zeledon in the foothills of Mount […]

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Barichara: Getting Familiar with Flora

Ross Evans — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 22:12:00 +0000

This week I do aim to take advantage of the time lapse that we have between the events I’m writing about and where we are now. So I’m going to zoom out a little to try and tell the story of one particular element of our stay in totality. At the point where Zia had […]

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