three days turns into ten days at the beach

chilling in the hammock outside our room
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after a rainy bus journey, with only one argument with a pig faced american that demanded our seat becuase he was apparently the only person on the bus to have booked a seat, we arrived in puerto viejo - a chilled out surfer mecca with nice beaches and yummy food.  we got to our hotel which was well nice with a comfy bed and a swimming pool with a fake waterfall and a hammock for me to snooze in.

next day we went to check that flight centre had posted our new plane tickets- but oh no, they had spouted a load of rubbish.  it turns out we have to buy new air passes and wait 12 MONTHS for a refund. a good job we are not impoverished back packers.  Not only that but we cannot get the flights we are booked on to chile as they are full (apart from the two empty seats that are booked in our name on the stolen tickets but that we cannot use!!!!).  the next available flight to santiago is not until the 7th of march, so we have some time to spend in costa rica.  of course there are worse places to have to spend time. a typical day here is spent as follows - get up listening to tropical birds squwaking and poison frogs ribbiting, eat some pineapple or maybe watermelon in the hammock, go out for brekkie if we are feeling rich, get on our rented bikes and cycle to the beach for some snorkelling or surfing depending on which beach we go to, picnic on the beach, back to the hotel for a refeshing dip in the pool and then out for 2-4-1 cocktails and a dinner of jerk chicken, fresh fish or rice and beans.  Like i said thereare worse places to be stuck.

Like i said thereare worse places to be stuck.

there are definitely worse place to have to spend a week
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have also met Jessica and James from our language course - they are down here counting raptors on a platform in the forest for a few weeks.  so that gives us some other people to talk to sometimes. and we have learnt how to play german whist.