• Manuel Antonio

    January 19, 2024 in Costa Rica ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    We woke up early and walked to breakfast at Bohemia Cafe. We had fantastic lattes, strawberry, lemon and mint crepes and banana Nutella crepes with pineapples and watermelon👌We walked back to our flat and packed the car and left on our
    5 1/2 hour drive. The roads were generally great and we had higher speed zones on our routes. We actually got up to 90km/hr but usually not for long. We hit traffic hot spots, just like home and unfortunately one of our stops was a fatal collision between a semi and two motorcycles. It was very emotional and sad. The drive was beautiful with lots of changes in agricultural, jungle, palm tree groves and smaller mountainous areas. We had trouble finding our Airbnb with our GPS sending us in circles around the main center which had lots of one way streets😜🤔 Our host, Stephane was patiently waiting for us. We parked and he asked us if he we wanted to take a bag up and we said no, we would wait. Then Anthony took a look at the stairs we had to climb and we went back and got most of our bags with Stephane's help. We carried everything up 156 steep stairs😅🥵 Then we did it all over again for the food bags!! What a workout and actually welcome since we had been sitting in the car. Stephane has a beautiful home overlooking the ocean. It is all concrete floors, & counters. He showed us his coffee plant and cinnamon tree right outside the main entrance and off the deck. He and his family stay right next door.
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