Big Apple

As one last attempt to stave off having to come home after our epic honeymoon, we stopped in New York for a day. We stayed in Greenwich Village - which is lovely - but went straight up the Empire State Building the evening we arrived. Here is the view of flat iron on Broadway from the top


Lou has been blending in with the locals. Riding the subway was better than walking around in the rain-sodden streets. We were getting tired of being rained on after tropical storms in Costa Rica, and then this... My shoes are still wet and my socks disintegrated during the day walking around town.


We escaped from the rain at the Museum of Modern Art, in which we skillfully avoided the queues and got to see some things we weren't expecting.


Well it's all over now and we're back in Bristol - it's raining here as well just for continuity. Ah well, it was great while it lasted - and it was nearly 3 weeks long. See you all soon.

¡Ciao Costa Rica!

Well, we are back in the central valley in Alajuela, in the mountains of Costa Rica. Today we went up to the crater of the nearby Poás volcano, which was pretty clouded but it did clear a little to reveal the steaming crater lake. We also went to this lake above the crater, full of green minerals and stinking of sulphur.

We are staying in a hotel overlooking the valley and airport, ready to leave tomorrow. It has some gardens and waterfalls in the grounds that we would go and swim in, if it wasn't so cold up here compared to the beach. Still it's pretty spectacular, but we'll stick to the hot tub..

We have also been into the main market in town to get some final bargains and naturally, eat more local food. Here I am eating a local dish called a Casado, which we washed down with some fruit shakes which are plentiful here.

Here are some remaining pcitures from the beach at Sámara. This one is nice and cheesy.

The mandatory tropical sunset photo-

So, it's bye bye Costa Rica, as we're off to New York now for a quick stopover on the way home. Cheerio from us.