More surf, different beach!

Troels was invited by his danish friend living in Costa Rica to go to Tamarindo, and since we had the week off before our first performance with Tempos, surf and relax on the beach would be the best warm up ;) In addition to the two danish guys already in Costa Rica Troels got a visit from another danish friend, so I was going to travel with 3 danish guys :)

Because of two different online bus schedules we arrived the bus station 3 hours before the bus was leaving. During our wait I showed our new danish guy, Martin, downtown San José. Obviously they started to celebrate the new year and they had a parade with a lot of their traditional carretas.

After several hours on a not so comfortable bus we finally arrived Tamarindo to see the sunset!

There were more people on the beach to watch the sunset :)

Christian is living in Costa Rica and he loves to go to the beach and surf. Every morning we would walk to another beach he knew, Playa Langosta, which was better to surf and with less people.

The first morning we got up to surf at about 6am! It was soo early, but soo worth it. When we were warming up on the beach we saw a huge whale jumping up from the water!!

There were a few good waves to practice my surfing ;)

When there were no waves we would just have fun in the water...

...or practice sitting on the board waiting for the waves :p

In the evenings we would make a bon fire on the beach and enjoy the sunset ;)

It was amazing, and to give you a sense of what I'm experiencing I made this time lapse.

Did you say Heredia???

Well, yesterday I had a lunch date! I was supposed to find my way to the University of Costa Rica. So the night before I asked a friend if there were any buses nearby where I live in Moravia. Yes, there would be a white bus going to UCR. So in the morning I asked a bus driver where the bus to UCR goes, he directs me to a bus stop 200 m further down the street. At the bus stop there was a guy waiting, so I asked him if the bus for the university stopped here, and yes it did. The guy let me know when the bus came, and I jumped on. Shortly after I started thinking something was wrong. Even though I'm new to this city, and haven't really been around too much, I could feel I was going in the wrong direction. I started asking some of the others on the bus, and they said it was on it's way to the university, but it was going to Universidad Nacional in Heredia! So I start talking to the bus driver to see if I could get off at some bus station with a bus that would take me back to UCR. He didn't speak any English, but I could barely catch that he would let me off at a bus stop with a bus back, and the only passenger speaking English confirmed that.

Every passenger got off, and I was sitting there alone, suddenly the bus driver stops and says he's not going further and that I have to get off. I have no idea where I am, or where my bus back is going.

I start walking around trying to ask people where I should catch a bus back to San Jóse.

Not so many people around there could speak English, so I got a nice challeng practicing my Spanish :) After a while I could find more and more buses, and I would ask the bus drivers where the bus to San Jóse went.

One bus driver said I should find bus number 400, and gave me the directions. I found the bus and messaged my date that I was on my way with bus number 400. She replies with "What?! There are no bus numbers!", but I had assured with the bus driver that I would get to downtown San Jóse.

I got to San Jóse and met her, finally, but my head was really spinning around! I was so glad to be there, and had totally forgotten to take pictures while I was in Heredia, but Pura Vida :D

¡¡¡Muchas gracias Meche, por tenerme paciencia!!!