Montezuma & Santa Teresa - Week 13

9 - 13th Dec

We set off at 6am from Jaco and took a bus, a ferry and another two buses to Montezuma. After alighting the ferry, we got on the next bus that was waiting for us but James decided that he needed to check the bags were okay. So off he went but the next minute the bus was pulling away with no sign of James. Much embarrassment for Katie as she tried her best Spanish in the most pathetic pleading voice to get the bus driver to stop. After two long minutes hanging out the door shouting for James, he appeared, running across the port with two enormous ice-creams!

Montezuma is a lovely spot on the south east side of the Nicoya Peninsula on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It is a tiny village set in a cove of the coast with beautiful beaches (surprise, surprise) all around.

Only problem was, the first night, Katie got a very dodgy tummy compaint and couldn't move out of sight of the nearest toilet. Luckily for James (and inconveniently for Katie) we were in a room with a shared bathroom down the corridor so he didn't have to listen to the, quite frankly, revolting noises Katie was creating. Anyway, enough detail there we think.


So, Katie spent the two days and three nights in the toilet and James ate the daily budget for the two of us. While Katie ate mashed potatoes and vegetables, James had mussels, prawns, octopus with chicken and mashed potato in a lovely creamy sauce - Mmmm!!

James passed the days doing lots of walking and going down to the beach. He saw loads of animals and birds. I think he thinks he's becoming a bit of a David Bailey...


We got the 10am bus on Tuesday morning out of Montezuma, further round the coast to Santa Teresa, another surfer beach place. The waves here were really big here, and the surfers were getting battered by waves time and time again. It´s hard to understand how they get back on there board again to paddle out for another battering...


Stayed in Gaviota, a nice place with a pool and aircon so Katie could catch up on 3 nights of missed sleep and eat her way to full recovery (!).

On the second day, we hired a boogie board which was absolutely exhausting. We must have looked like compete idiots next to all the serious surfers because we were truly rubbish!! In the evenings we did a bit of rockpooling and long walks down the beach.

Books we read: Brighton Rock, Graham Green - not as exciting as we hoped!