14th February
After dinner I head back to the hotel. Would be nice to have a companion, so as to have an excuse to drink something and take in the atmosphere a little more. Sitting alone in a bar isn't my style.
At dinner, I went to an Israeli restaurant. A German man on the next table was telling the waiter that hummus is called cous-cous in Arabic countries. The waiter said it wasn't but the man insisted that it was. I mention that they are two different things but he's never been wrong so I say, "is it really? Well I've learnt something new today."
I had a lazy day trying to avoid the heat and watched Tottenham beat Manchester City under a fan in bar from 11am. Good result! The rest of the was spent booking flights home for a month's time, and a hire car for the first 4 weeks in the USA. It took a few hours just to do that as I had to find a one-way rental that didn't charge anything. The standard charge is $300-500 so getting it for free is worth the search.
I also booked my ticket to Costa Rica for tomorrow, and the accommodation for the first three nights. I'll need to rise at 6am and head straight out to catch the bus at 7. I bought my food supplies for the whole day; two bananas, 2 apples, a big bottle of water and some bread wraps. I already have a tin of tuna from about 3 countries back, and some biscuits so that's the emergency rations sorted.
Tomorrows bus leaves at 7am. There's yet another border crossing to endure before lunchtime. I'm being dropped at a place called La Irma a short distance past Canas. From there, local buses pass towards Monteverde. I hope I can get on one.
Granada deserves more time, as does Nicaragua but I must move on. There's only a couple of weeks before my flight to Miami and I expect to want to spend most of that in Costa Rica.
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