San Jose Travel Blogs

Note: Left my camera in LA and won't be able to upload photos until I get back next week. Check out some of Dave's photos from the trip here:www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/12062-----Before the trip, Dave and I meticulously packed up our surfboards. We smothered the boards with bubble wrap, padded t…

This day was pretty uneventful.  Sarah and I made the sad drive from Arenal to San Jose, which took about three hours, dropped off the rental car, and headed to the airport to catch our respective flights.  I had a connection in Guatemala City, Guatemala and talked…

OK, this is a bit of a behemoth.  I thought I'd write a summary of the country as I found it now I'm leaving it.  Although life is full of shades of grey, the old B&W best of/worst of format will suffice for this resumé.  Sorry it is huge, I have tried to break it up though to m…

  NOW, IT”S TIME TO SAY GOOD NIGHT   My time in San José was short and sweet.   As I headed to the airport to fly to Bogotá, I thought about all of the adventures I had shared with new TravBuddy friends I had met only 36 hours ago. I could almost hear the old Beatles song fr…

Well the today has finally arrived, i am to pack my karrimor in a few hours for the off, have my last plate of gorgeous nachos, and check out.. Adios costa rica, bex is saying farewell, wow we spent over 3months here, and its gone soooo quick, i have had a great time, and will take loads of great t…

  And so we were back in San José. We used the day to wind down a bit. Do some laundry, check some e-mails, do some shopping, etcetera. In the evening we went out in San Pedro again. Despite today being a Saturday it wasn't as much fun as last week. Guess week nights are better fo…

Carsten and I picked our backpacks up at the hostel and provisionary refreshed us on the street…changed shirts and stuff. Then we went to the ferry which was supposed to leave at 12:30pm. We got there in time and decided to seat on the deck this time. No brash music-videos up there, yay! Settling…

Al dia siguiente de llegar a San Jose, ya nos volviamos para España, pero como era por la tarde, esa manaña tuvimos tiempo de dar un paseo por San Jose.  Te recomiendan que tengas mucho cuidado, que no atiendas a extraños que te digan cosas, que no mires un mapa o te distraigas en la calle,…

To say goodbye to Puerto Viejo, we went to the beach all morning and then packed our plastic bag with our few clothes and left. First we made a stop in Cahuita to see the national park (nice!) and catch a road by the ocean which was "sin salida" ...we just found this out after 1/2 hour driving... …

Wow…Que dia! We started out fairly late today, around 10a. We wanted to focus on the city....to explore every nook and cranny....to discover its treasures and best kept secrets....ALL ON FOOT! Together with a handy-dandy Fodor’s Costa Rica 2009 guidebook, we clocked in miles and miles and miles…

Arrived in San Jose via a direct flight from JetBlue.  My taxi was waiting for me - great guy with a nice clean van.  Took me direct to La Hotel Amistad for $30; which I paid in USD.  (In general, most mainstream places take USD or colones; but it is good to keep both on you at all t…

The last morning in San Jose, Atiba and I went to the hot tub at the Best Western. Even though we only had a view of the hotel, it was still nice to have plants and trees around me. After the hot tub, Atiba got ready to play tennis at the hotel and I packed since I was taking the airport shuttle at…

I'M EMPLOYED!!!!! I got a job with a great company, Idiomas Internacional, as an English teacher... in Liberia (Costa Rica, not Africa)! The great part is that they work in conjunction with the government on a program called the INA (Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje/National Institute of Learning)…

Some Photo's from a beautyfull trip

Majestic and demur. Not always the things that come to mind when one considers Latin America. But even as rustic haciendas and plantations mix in with shanties and wooden shacks, San Jose certainly can be described as majestic. And with a highly educated population, there is an air of sophisticatio…