At some point I should become all blase about volcanoes and volcanic activity since I’ve been fortunate to see so many, but not yet. This morning we left Monteverde. A van collected us, collected three other people (I’m afraid my luggage and the Gentleman Friend’s was very bulky indeed) and took us off through some […]
Staying in
I woke up in a slight fluster having had two dreams. The first was of a story to write: an academic article about how, when photography came, we stopped seeing the other world. The second was that I was looking on Facebook and saw an item whose font had changed and realised it was describing […]
On horseback
It was cold and wet and rainy this morning, enough that we nearly turned tail. Instead we gingerly mounted our horses and set off. I hadn’t been on a horse since I was about 13 and that time I fell off. Before that, I rode a few times aged around 9 and fell off. I […]
Hand of the stone
We took a taxi to Curi Cancha reserve, asked for a map for a 3 or 4 hour long walk, and off we went. To begin with there were a few people around, a Chinese family with some of those really immense cameras all pointing up into a tree. We tried to see what they […]
Cloud forests are very lovely
Our first trip to the cloud forests. We went to a canopy walk, a very lengthy (and expensive) one. Rather busier and less wild than I would like, at least the paths and so on — the forest itself was spectacular. We didn’t see any animals but we’d have to come with a guide to […]
Rainy season
Today we left Panama – a very hot and sunny Panama, and flew off to Costa Rica — a very cold and wet Costa Rica. Our driver arrived a bit late but eventually turned up and then took us up through the hills to Monteverde where it was pouring, not surprisingly given it’s the rainy […]