Coping with public and private transport since 2001
All good things must come to an end, and this holiday in Costa Rica does so too. We have experienced it all, ranging from tropical beaches, alpine highlands, tropic rainforests, wetlands, the food, the heat, the humidity, the people and most of all the language. Spanish is hard! We would love to go back one day, to further experience the
Continue readingEven though we have already spotted a Quetzal ourselves, we thought it would be nice to just get out early and go together with a guide to see more of them! So, here we are again, at 05:45 in the morning gathered with our gear to go out and find something. Today, we didn’t have to travel far: we found
Continue readingAfter a short night of sleep in Le Bergerac because of the noise of the city of San José and our jet lag, we got up around 05:10 to pack and get our breakfast at 05:30. We were to be picked up at 06:00 from our hotel by the Tortuguero people to be brought all the way to the National
Continue readingWhen I say easy going, I mean easy going. After an early start we had an appointment with the local travel agent for some more background information on our trip and Costa Rica in general. The travel agent advised us to walk through the center of San José as most touristic destinations are within a few hundred metres of each
Continue readingDay one of our holiday starts off like many of them: by plane. We arrived at Schiphol Airport around 10 in the morning as our flight was scheduled to leave at 1PM. As a severe rainstorm just happened to pass over Schiphol right around the time we would take off, this event was delayed for about 15 minutes as the
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