It’s hot this morning. I’m sat at the top of the bioparque having just dropped Zia off to catch the bus to school for her last couple of days. Yesterday was the first day that it’s been overcast throughout and with it there were spells of rainfall. Today the heat from the sun this close […]

Our second week in Bogotá followed a weekend of being resigned to the sofa with my cold. I suffer uncommonly with the common cold. Seems my body is badly designed for it and I ended up sleeping almost entirely through at least one day. Anyway, by Sunday I’d got over the worst of it and […]

We spent our last two nights in Costa Rica in a little apartment close to Alajuela so that we were only a short drive from the airport. The apartment was tiny but well stocked and everything thought of by our considerate hosts. It was co-hosted by Adrian and his mother who lived downstairs with her […]

In our last week in Costa Rica not a huge amount happened, yet it didn’t feel right to miss it out entirely. From the condominium in San Rafael we made our way back to Escazú. A month or so beforehand we had visited Escazú to go to the feria when we were staying in San […]

Having finished our trip around Lake Arenal and spent a wonderful few days near La Fortuna we were getting ready for the next phase of our journey which would take us to Colombia! We’d booked up the last few stays with a view to making our way back to San Jose with plenty of time […]

With our plans to head to Colombia all firmed up this last part of our stay in Costa Rica was partly finishing up our route around Lake Arenal and making our way back to San Jose. From Nuevo Arenal we went to La Fortuna which brought us to the foothills of Volcano Arenal. The volcano […]

Our stay in Tronadora was one of our shortest stops lasting only 3 days and from there we were off on another brief stop on the other side of Lake Arenal in the town of Nuevo Arenal. It was about a 40 minute ride in a taxi to get from one side to the other […]

From Santa Elena we arranged to get a lift to our next stop in Tronadora with our new friend Alvaro. Once again, bags packed, apartment searched for any belongings left behind, we set off. It was about a 45 minute drive along some twisty trails to get there. We had a good conversation with Alvaro […]

The next day was to be our final big day out in the area. When we were first planning our trip we had looked at a lot of the canopy tours which are offered in the cloud forest, most of which have a variety of zip-lines involved. There are plenty of posters advertising who has […]