Our experiences during the sabbatical year
Saturday is the farmer’s market in Alajuela, where we are staying for now. It happens to be the largest in the country too. So, we decided to pay it a visit. The market is large but extremely well organized and most importantly is a FEAST to the eyes ans taste buds! Stalls after stalls with … More Hello tropical fruit!
I admit it. Matilda is a very special cat. Really!! She is intolerant to cereals AND diabetic. This means that she can only eat grain-free wet food. In Sweden, this is not a problem at all. The Mjau cat food that the vet recommended us can be bought at the supermarket in large cans (almost … More Indiana Jones and the quest for grain-free cat food
Een bericht voor N. en anderen die niet zo goed in het engels zijn. Het is nu bijna precies een week geleden dat het vliegtuig landde op Juan Santamaria International Airport, hier vlakbij Alajuela (spreek uit als Alaguèla). druk, druk, druk Ondanks alle blogs die we sindsdien geschreven hebben, vraag je je misschien af hoe … More Hoe was het nu, afgelopen week?
Aka: Furrballs with wings Let me start by saying that bringing our cat (Matilda) to Costa Rica has been easier than expected. I was a bit worried about how she would cope with almost 20 hours in the transport box which was the estimated time from door to door, traveling from the Netherlands to Costa … More How our cat made the trip
Yesterday night, at around 17.00 local time we landed at Juan Santamaria International airport, close to San José, the capital of Costa Rica. After getting through passport control, luggage collection and check and finding a taxi, we arrived to our new home for the coming week. That was two in the morning in the Netherlands. … More We made it!
Costa Rica, here we go! Tomorrow we are finally jumping on the plane that will take us to our new life in Costa Rica. Needless to say, we are very excited and very, very nervous. After all the planning and going through the last-minute endless to-do lists, this is it! All boxes checked, all things … More And the D-day arrived!
Oh my! Here we go! One of our criteria to select the destination for our sabbatical was that we could bring our furballs with us. So, despite most of our family and friends think we have finally lost our mind, we are taking them with us. Yes, we are aware that the flight is 12 … More Pets to Costa Rica
Before summer holidays, we still had more than six months to go before 2020. Almost seven months if we took the day of the flight. It all still felt comfortably distanced from the here and now. Within the blink of a summer’s eye, it feels completely different now. Yesterday we received potential tenants for our … More It’s official, we are getting nervous
Why? Could you go on holidays to a country where you don’t speak the language? It depends on the country but often you can, definitely if you stay in more or less touristic areas. Could you stay there for a year without speaking the language? Perhaps yes, but your life will be much better if … More Aprendiendo español
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