Relaxing at the beach in San Juan del Sur!

When arriving San Juan del Sur we found a hotel just a few blocks from the beach. This is the road to the beach.

On the way to the beach I saw a nice little house with a matching car outside ;)

My mother got her first taste of the Pacific coast of Central America!

San Juan del Sur also has a little top with a statue of El Cristo de la Misericordia that is 26 meters tall.

Along the beach are restaurants side by side. We found a nice place to eat a tasty lunch with a relaxing view of the beach ;)

After lunch we stayed at the beach to swim and relax until sunset!

For the sunset we found a bar with some seats on the beach. Of course we had to try out some new drinks :)

They had happy hour, 2 for 1, so why not try some more different drinks?

The sun was just so big and round that evening!

After the sunset we went back to the hotel to freshen up and get ready for dinner. I did not bring my camera for dinner, but we had an amazing dinner with entertainment. The restaurant had a cultural nicaraguan night where we got to hear live music and watch traditional nicaraguan dances.

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.

Beachtime! Flamingo, here we come :D

Last weekend Mette had her Birthday, and we headed to the beach to celebrate her!
We drove for about 5 hours from San Jóse to our destination, Flamingo.

We tried to get there in time to see the sunset at the beach.

Before the sunset the birthdaychild wanted a little swim in the warm ocean ;)

We didn't really see a perfect sunset, but eventhough it was cloudy it was nice and colorful!

Not to many bars or restaurants were open because it was off season, so we enjoyed a birthday meal at the hotel. We also had the party on our own terrace we got with our Captain's suite, at Mariner Inn ;) Eventhough the bar was closed at the hotel we got a welcoming drink. We had to turn around and bend our heads back, and the bartender would pour from a bottle of local sugar cane liquor, Cacique Guaro. All in all it was a good birthday celebration!

The next morning we tried out some different beaches. First we went to Sugar Beach, but after a while it started raining. Later we had lunch at Potrero Beach, where we got kinda sunburnt :P

The next day we woke up early and went to lie down in the sun at Conchal Beach, a long and white beach ;)

It was so nice and relaxing!

So we tried out four new beaches in just a few days, with parties and relaxing :)

¡Gracias por un buen fin de semana, amigos!