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Alajuela and San Jose

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

We knew were weren’t going to be seeing the best of Costa Rica, but we can come back here from home fairly easily.  However we weren’t prepared to have to spend two days in the pouring rain.  We decided not to stay in San Jose, but in Alajuela which is only 2.5kms from the airport.  There isn’t much to Alajuela, even finding a restaurant proved difficult!  However, we had hoped to visit a volcano nearby, but with the weather as it was it seemed pointless. 

Alajuela in the rainAlajuela in the rain 

Instead we headed into San Jose, which is another dump and generally felt we were wasting the last two days before Madrid and the last weekend away before heading homewards and back to reality.

 

Granada & Ometepe

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

After our exciting ferry journey over from Utila to La Ceiba it was on the bus for us.  Down to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, and then the following day over the border into Nicaragua and Granada. [read on]

Utila

Sunday, October 7th, 2007
A long day of travle - two buses and one ferry - and we are finally in Utila, an island in the Caribean making up the Bay Island group. Our main reason for being here was for some R&R before heading ... [Continue reading this entry]

Copan Ruinas

Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Yeah, our shuttle bus turned up!!  Nick & I woke at the slightest noise outside our window all night, but finally our minibus showed up at around 4am and we were out of Guatemala, heading towards Honduras.  I'm not sure what ... [Continue reading this entry]