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Days 50-52: On the run from the police? Just quit as Foreign Secretary? We have the perfect place to hide away….

  • by dan313
  • Posted on July 16, 2018July 16, 2018
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If you need to escape, remove yourself from your normal life, avoid the authorities and/or friends and family, we have just the place. It is remote. It is beautiful.

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Days 45 – 49 – 1000 years of history in three world-famous Mayan sites

  • by dan313
  • Posted on July 15, 2018August 6, 2018
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It will be difficult, if not impossible, to do justice to the three Mayan sites which we have seen in the past week. Tulum, Coba and Palenque. Why? Because even with a guided tour, you […]

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Day 46 – failing to do ‘proper’ travelling – Tulum to Palenque, Mexico

  • by dan313
  • Posted on July 12, 2018July 12, 2018
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Stories about the old days are dull. I’ve tried to regale the girls with stories of poste restantes, long-distance bus trips and dysentery and they look at me as if I’m talking in swahili.

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Days 44-47 – Tulum, Mexico and the Maya Riviera

  • by dan313
  • Posted on July 11, 2018July 11, 2018
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There were a few warning signs. The pilates teacher in Costa Rica who said “I used to live in Tulum and when it got too much I came here.” The American we met a few […]

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Day 45: Guest post from Lucy – the story so far

  • by dan313
  • Posted on July 9, 2018July 9, 2018
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We are halfway through our travels – and very much alive, enjoying our new freedom, healthy and excited EVERY day. We are having a ball. Yesterday we said a sad farewell to Costa Rica. We […]

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Day 43: the benefits of changing plans and our last week in Costa Rica

  • by dan313
  • Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018
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(Esterillo Este at 5.40am today) Generally we are taught, and we learn, the value of persistence. Of determination. Of focus and staying set on a goal until it is reached. We are taught, and we […]

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Car journeys

  • by dan313
  • Posted on July 6, 2018July 6, 2018
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We love each other and life is good but there are times when we see too much of each other. Like on car journeys.

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Day 40: an unashamedly cliched and very cute video of a sloth

  • by dan313
  • Posted on July 4, 2018July 4, 2018
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From ants to surfing to rafting to toucans we are doing what you come here to do. We have even bought Pura Vida t-shirts. In that vein we present some video from this morning of […]

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Days 33-38: Cloud forest, mass tourism and the vanishing volcano

  • by dan313
  • Posted on July 2, 2018July 2, 2018
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[The Arenal volcano in cloud, or at least that is the rumour] It is all too easy to get stuck in Nosara. The blissful schedule of surf-swim-eat-repeat is too potent, too fulfilling and this place […]

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Day 36: Mini lecture on two insects who may or may not reflect human traits

  • by dan313
  • Posted on July 1, 2018July 1, 2018
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[Image c/o https://twitter.com/NWSElPaso – it is the official insect of New Mexico] We are bingeing on Mother Nature but I’ve tried to limit the flora and fauna facts and figures. There have been photos and […]

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