What to do if you want to travel Central America * (what we didn't)

[chrestomancy]

Finally in Costa Rica, last stop before NZ and OZ. Dominican Republic was fantastically expensive, which amusingly meant that for the two of us it was fantastically cheap, because we couldn't afford to do anything much. We saw whales. We windsurfed (or more accurately bounced off the board, the sail, the rocks that were always below us when we

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[lathany]

Oh, and I think that the carribean sucks.

I've now put it on my list of places never to visit.

I hope NZ and OZ are much better. And I'll tell Mum you're still alive.

[chrestomancy]

Only from the perspective of, there are nicer cheaper friendlier places just around the corner. Belize, San Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica. Probably the places we didn't go are nice too.

[bateleur]

Well as I understand it[1] pretty much everyone in the Carribean is a pirate, so it's not surprising it's a bit sucky.

[1] Source: Monkey Island, The Secret of.

[chrestomancy]

There's nothing sucky about pirates!

Or Ninja Pirates! That'd be really cool!

[cuthbertcross]

Hi, Gibbon and Marmot. Glad you are still in one piece (and check out my LJ when you have a moment; there's a f-locked post that might interest you)

Have fun in NZ!

[quisalan]

Hey Gringo...

You want taxi? What you mean you no pay $100! I got a starving llama to feed and 12 children!

[chrestomancy]

Hey mister! We are poor, we have no jobs, we have no homes. We have intenet access to pay for. And if you don't need the llama, can we ride it to town?

[lanfykins]

Of course the Caribbean sucks. It's sunny. Sunlight is evil, everyone knows that :)

[undyingking]

Or conversely: but at least it was nice and sunny, right?

[chrestomancy]

Frances seems to have gone mad. She now actively persues sunbathing, trying to loose those bits where dress straps or costume straps leave naughts-and-crosses boards on her back. I think the sun has cooked her brain.

[undyingking]

good grief!