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?
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!
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
I cannot even remember when it started, but Cris and I had been cherishing the idea of a sabbatical for a while. We’ve both been working for twenty years non-stop and it is time for a break. Over a year ago we marked a year in our calendars: 2020 (Only now that I write it … More The journey began more than a year ago, and now we have a blog
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