Part one of our fabulous road trip to end all road trips in Costa Rica (at least for now…). I finished work on Wednesday, packed up what was left of our apartment on Thursday and headed to the beach on Friday. Too much drama went on during those two days for me to even care to go back over to blog about, but I didn’t care. My plan was to forge ahead and forget all of petty things in my past. By the end of the drive, all I wanted was a cocktail and a good meal. This wish was soon granted in the hotel’s swim-up bar at sunset and then the hotel restaurant. Eating fresh fish whilst looking at the sea it came from really is something else. Mark’s meal of mahi-mahi in a Caribbean salsa was to die for. So good that I am regretting not asking the chef for the recipe.

The next day was absolute bliss of doing nothing. Any stresses from the previous months melted away and I got thoroughly into reading and tanning punctuated by occasional dips in the pool/sea (both of equal distance from my sunbed) just to cool off. A beach BBQ, a couple of margaritas more fresh fish at the beach club next door to our hotel (Bahia del Sol on Playa Potrero) topped off my day to perfection.

On the second night, we were actually joined by a couple of the boys from San Jose and then more friends, so on day three, we were quite a large fun group. We spent more time eating fresh food, drinking too many cocktails and taking advantage of good wifi (oh, it had been so long my dear friend!). After four fantastic nights of good food and good company, I could barely remember what had been stressing me out in the previous weeks and was looking forward to my biggest problem being when to turn over in the dun to ensure even tan… Fabulous.