mojacar
2016年9月7日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Halifax
2016年11月24日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
Solana's birthday celebrations
2016年12月13日, イングランド ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
We celebrated Solana's 4th birthday at the weekend. She knows that we are going on our "Big Adventure" when she is 4, so not long now - we fly out 5 weeks today!
Stockton-on-Tees
2016年12月31日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
She weighs 13.5kg - how much luggage do you think she can carry?!!! Getting a bit worried about how little stuff we're actually going to be able to carry....
Happy New Year to you all.
No work for 4 months!
2017年1月13日, イングランド ⋅ 🌙 0 °C
We enjoyed the cold crisp Winter weather today, before our imminent journey to the Tropics. Me and Solana went for a walk in the park, where we enjoyed making snow angels and breaking ice with sticks.もっと詳しく
Let the adventure begin....
2017年1月16日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
We left home today, setting off on our Big Adventure. We have 31kg of luggage in our main bags (less than we thought) and 14.5kg in our day bags (more than we thought!). Solana has carried her 1.6kgもっと詳しく
Safe arrival in Costa Rica
2017年1月19日, コスタリカ ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
We arrived safely in Playa Hermosa on the Pacific shore of Costa Rica the night before last, after a long (21 hour) but smooth journey. Staying in a little villa with great swimming pool (which Solanaもっと詳しく
Playa Hermosa, Pacific coast
2017年1月20日, コスタリカ ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
We enjoyed our couple of days in Playa Hermosa, supposedly recovering from our jet lag. We're all still waking pretty early but that is actually turning out to be an advantage, as early morning is aもっと詳しく
Monteverde cloud forest
2017年1月21日, コスタリカ ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
We're now in the Monteverde area for a few days. Spent the day today in the Monteverde Cloud Forest reserve, walking the trails, enjoying the views and spotting wildlife (which is actually moreもっと詳しく
Curi-Cancha cloud forest reserve
2017年1月22日, コスタリカ ⋅ ☀️ -7 °C
We spent today exploring the trails of Curi-Cancha cloud forest reserve. It was fantastic - at least as good as the main Monteverde reserve, if not better. It is at a slightly lower elevation, so wasもっと詳しく
Moving on in Monteverde
2017年1月23日, コスタリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Last night we ate again in one of the cheapest and best restaurants in town - this time I had rice without the beans, for a change! This morning we said goodbye to our hotel with coatis on theもっと詳しく
Last day in Monteverde
2017年1月24日, コスタリカ ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
We had a relaxed day, wandering the trails of our lodge in Valle Escondido, today. One of our favourite places along the trails was the "hammock garden" - a lovely place to relax, until a 4-year-oldもっと詳しく
Uvita, Pacific coast
2017年1月26日, コスタリカ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Yesterday we moved on from Monteverde to Uvita, on the Southern, Pacific, coast of Costa Rica. The journey took about 5 hours but we saw plenty along the way, including vultures and other birds ofもっと詳しく
Last day on the Pacific coast
2017年1月27日, コスタリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
After a shaky start in Uvita and a lack of whales, we had a great day today and have decided that we do like the place after all! This morning we went to Playa Ventanas. We had to drive through aもっと詳しく
Finding the way to San Jose
2017年1月28日, コスタリカ ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
Today started well but turned out not to be the finest of our trip... We went for an early morning walk and saw lots of birds, including at least 9 new species, bringing our bird species total so farもっと詳しく
Poas volcano
2017年1月30日, コスタリカ ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
We left Hotel Mango and drove North through the mountains (on quite a hairy road that Laura, who is doing the driving, took surprisingly calmly!) to Volcan Poas National Park. Undeterred by the signsもっと詳しく
Sarapiqui rainforest
2017年1月30日, コスタリカ ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
We had a couple of days (3 nights) staying at Chilamate Rainforest Ecolodge in the Sarapiqui rainforest. The lodge has its own trails, so it was easy to explore the forest on foot. Solana quiteもっと詳しく
Spiders, sloths and sickness
2017年1月31日, コスタリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
A bit of a shaky start to the day as Laura was ill in the night with D+V. The first illness of our trip, although I'm sure it won't be our last.... We went on a guided walk and saw green and brownもっと詳しく
Tortuguero
2017年2月2日, コスタリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We arrived in Tortuguero on Wednesday. Tortuguero is an isolated place, that can only be reached by boat or air - we opted for the former. This area is the wettest part of Costa Rica - very hot andもっと詳しく
Tortuguero village
2017年2月2日, コスタリカ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
This afternoon we visited Tortuguero village - just across the river from where we're staying. The Caribbean black-sand beach here (see photo) is one of the most important turtle nesting beaches inもっと詳しく
Last day in Tortuguero
2017年2月3日, コスタリカ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Today we got up early and went on a wildlife boat trip at 5:45am. It was worth it as we saw a lot of animals and birds, including more 3-toed sloths (the 2-toed variety has eluded us so far), . Hereもっと詳しく
More Tortuguero wildlife
2017年2月3日, コスタリカ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
A few more photos of the Tortuguero wildlife. This really is an amazing place to spot wildlife. We love that Solana is interested in the wildlife too - most of the time (although I will confess thatもっと詳しく
Going Caribbean
2017年2月5日, コスタリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
We left Tortuguero on Saturday, after finding a hummingbird nest in the hotel grounds that morning – an amazing thing to see. Hummingbirds are tiny, weighing just a few grams each, so I can’tもっと詳しく
Cahuita National Park
2017年2月6日, コスタリカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Today we had a leisurely breakfast whilst sitting out the rain (we are virtually in the rainforest here, after all I suppose!). Once the sky brightened a bit we ventured out and had a walk in theもっと詳しく























































































































































mg.bigadventureThe Morgan-Gardiners holidaying in Andalucia, getting into practice for our “big adventure” – the sun, sling & Spanish! We now have just a couple of months left to get prepared for our departure in January. Our biggest concern is the realisation that we will have to manage with less luggage for 4 months of travelling than we took to Spain for one week last month!