Here we are with Claire's family for the dinner "de despedida"!
For our last night in Buenos Aires we had an amazing family dinner with Claire's cousins in the garden... It was really great to be able to say goodbye to everyone! Buenos Aires and Tareka's home was our home base for the past months so it really felt strange to say goodbye for good, and to pack EVERYTHING: winter & summer clothes - and some wedding gifts we received, which are nothing but small :-)) Thank God when we arrived at the airport on the next day we said we were on honeymoon and we didnt need to pay for the extra luggage! We're definately going to use the honeymoon trick for evey single one of our trips from now on!!!
Claire with her cousins Pilar, Teresa y Sofi
Alex’s family welcomed us in San Jose and showed us the Costa Rica nature, its vegetation (Carlos is a biologist so knows a lot and enjoys sharing!), and we went to two very impressive volcanoes. We also learned how to make chocolate! It was really fun and tasty… and educative for us Swiss nationals! Hmmm
Claire and a Gunnera insignis - sombrilla de pobre
Claire holding a Coca plant (cacao) and coca beans
After that, we rented a car and decided to visit the Pacific Coast: Playa del Coco, Tamarindo, Samara, Mal Pais, and finally Manuel Antonio. Every village had its own charm, different beaches, and a hostel with swimming pool… We even got to practice some of our German skills as they own most of the hostels here!
Our programme included
- Discovering desert beaches
- surfing (Alex more than Claire)
- relaxing yoga classes (Claire more than Alex ;-)
- reading/ sleeping/ snorkeling/ suntanning/ and long walks on the beaches
- eating casados (typical costa Rican dish) or extremely fresh seafood
- kayaking to a desert island (included one of our first marital fights hehehe)
- driving on tracks and crossing rivers
- looking for yummie restaurants in the lonely planet
- exciting animal watching: monkeys, a leopard!, paresosos, tucans, an ant eater (tapir), scary snakes, spiders etc…
- eating tropical fruits
- watching romantic sunsets…
It was just awesome…!! Now we’re on our way back home… we’ll be landing in Geneva at around 9 a.m. on Friday!
