Last Few Days in the Summer Sunshine in Costa Rica

Well I am all packed up and all paperwork is completed, apart from collecting said paperwork from the respective Consulates on Tuesday, we are trying to enjoy the lovely sunshine and nice climate before we decamp to winter Spain on Wednesday. The house is in the middle of having some essential work, a combined heating and Air conditioning system, cost, 2500 Euros, which includes a total upgrade of the electrical system. A new hot water heater as the other was sufficient for washing the dirty pots after a meal but not for having a nice shower. Also a shower system running off the hot water heater I am installing, insluding shower curtains for the first time, if you wanted a shower you had to squat down like a pakistani in the bath to rinse off, and the water supply was so weak that if you tried to bath it would take 30 minutes to put enough water into it, pretty abysmal, so all that is being changed, plus a little decorating as that was needed to hide the damage caused by the water leak in the front bedroom.

So all in all we are nearly ready just collecting some more documents for customs and any other potential immigration requirement not noticed as once we are left we are not coming back to Costa Rica for a while.

The hotel we are staying at is really nice, a nicely kep place run by some italians. The gardens are huge for a hotel of this size and the pool is fantastic but cool as there is no heating. The rooms are Ok but the only thing that irritates me is the same as anywhere, outside noise from cars and trucks and motorcycles and a noisy neighbour who plays music to all hours, we did have the police looking around some of the surrounding hedging, it turned out the police were following someone who had robbed something and he dumped everything in the hedge including gun and robbed items which didn't seem like much. as not many folks have much here anyway.

Pool Area with Little Tinker




Pool Area again