A Perfectico Storm

In the beforetime - before we left the UK, before *the virus* - when the “packing up our entire lives and going to live in the tropics” process was feeling particularly tough and I wasn’t 100% convinced my marriage or my sanity were going to make it here in one piece, there was an image that got me through... it had sand, sea, sun.  It actually took us a while to get to the beach and our first few beach experiences weren’t really what I’d been envisioning (we WILL get there eventually though!). BEACH #1 - PLAYA JACÓ The first beach we walked on was in Jacó (pronouced "hack-O" to rhyme with "whacko"). We went to Jacó on the way to meet a couple for a prospective house sit. We just went for an overnight. It was in late January which is the middle of summer here and we hadn’t done much acclimatising. We were still getting used to it being pitch black dark at 6pm and really hot and humid at the same time. Boy was it HOT. We got to Jacó as it was getting dark and had a...

This is part 2 of our first two weeks in Costa Rica, you can read Part 1: Three days in Costa Rica here . Hummingbird makes the rubbish weather feel better Day Four: It's still raining and windy, we could have stayed in England if we wanted weather like this, but we're off to La Paz Waterfall Gardens today so nothing is going to dampen our spirits. I could, and probably will, write a whole post about La Paz Waterfall Gardens. It is an amazing place filled with wildlife that we've never seen in real life. There's a mixture of enclosures with different types of animals as well as wild animals in the grounds of the gardens. Hummingbird acrobatics as La Paz We see birds (Iris even got to feed a toucan), insects, spiders, monkeys, butterflies, snakes, frogs, orchids, hummingbirds and big cats. The most impressive part of the day was watching some of the 26 different species of hummingbird in the hummingbird garden, they flit about so gracefully and their win...

There's a really well known (and super useful) blog called Two Weeks in Costa Rica. I think they called it that because they originally came on holiday for a fortnight (and then they kept coming back and eventually birthed a child or two here). I thought it would be good to tell you about some of the things we did in our first two weeks in Costa Rica: Day One : We are HERE! The sun is shining in San José!! When we drove down to Heathrow there was horizontal rain, terrible wind and it was cold, cold in your bones cold. We pick up our ridiculous hire car and drive ten minutes to a hotel. There is a pool. We drink cocktails. There are butterflies and dragonflies, we see a parrot in a tree. It's 27 degrees C. We've been travelling for 37 hours. We pass out. Day Two : We have amazing, delicious breakfast. It is fried banana, rice and beans, fresh pineapple, papaya and watermelon. Why have I never had this before? We swim, we eat crisps made out of bananas. I get the impres...