To our friends and family

Dear All,

Hope you are reading this feeling happy and well and looking forward to Christmas.

Please forgive the shameless self-promotion on the previous posts.

This blog is really about our travels and fun things like:
the fact that we're living in Barcelona and would love for you to come and see us.
that you can easily call us from the UK on 08450 048 950 - we'd love to hear from you.

We have a little four and half year old West Highland White terrior called Tosca -who makes us laugh all the time. She sings along with Ambulances!

Well, no doubt we'll get around to putting up the last of our trip photos and some new Barcelona stuff soon. For now we wish you all a very happy christmas and the best of luck for the new year!

Lots of love from,

Tim and Tamsin.
xxx

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We're back

Hi Everybody,

We're back in the UK now. Heading off to Barcelona on the 5th of July. Popping backwards and forwards between the UK and Barcelona pretty regularly...

We'll finish off this photo blog of the trip sometime soon and let you all know when we do.

Love,

Tim and Tamsin

Puerto Viejo on the Caribbean coast

This Capuchin stole our lunch

Leaf-cutting ants at rush hour

This Capuchin stole somebody else´s lunch

A 10 year old, 15cm long Hercules beetle

A sloth sleeps for 18 hours a day and always smiles!!!

Luis "Papa sloth" and Buttercup

Orphaned two fingered sloth sleeping

Sloth Hospital and Cheeky Monkeys

The only one of it's kind in the world, the Sloth Hospital on the road to Limon was as cute as a barrel load of puppies. The star is Buttercup, a three fingered sloth who was the first one to be saved and who started the ball rolling.

At the moment there are lots of babies who are beeing bottle fed and who spend there time just hanging around and sleeping...lots. They will all enter into the program to get released into the wild.

Down the road is Cahuita National Park which we reached on a scooter. We were lucky and the day we went the White Faced Capuchins came really close and hung out with us for about an hour. They even let us see the babies!

We found this little fellow in the bathroom!

Heleconia - the signature flower of Costa Rica

Puerto Viejo, Limon, Costa Rica

In the crazy world of airline prices, a stop in Central America on route from Rio to the Galapagos didn't add much to the cost so Tamsin suggested a visit to Puerto Rico. Tim got mixed up and read a book on Costa Rica (They sound pretty similiar!). It sounded much nicer though so here we are!

We rented a house near the beach on the Caribbean coast in the rainforest with amazing wildlife (monkeys and Toucans in the garden), took Spanish lessons and relaxed on the beach. Tim tried out surfing with some success but struggled with the looking really cool bit...that's for another day.

It is a massive statue, honestly - It´s just the perspective

Rio de Janiero and the masses

We spent 2 weeks in Rio de Janiero but there's not many photos as the place isn't safe so we didn't take the camera much.
The highlights:
- A free Lenny Kravitz concert on Copacabana beach with over 1 million people proceeded by Drum and Bass to warm up the crowd!
- Listening to bossanova followed by dinner with another couple from our hostel at "The Girl from Ipanema" bar - the song was written there.
- The sunset behind the statue of Christ the redeemer from Sugerloaf mountain.
- Attending a football match between two local teams at the Maracana stadium. It was filled to capacity and the crowds were controlled with swords!!
- And finally enjoying the beach and the sunshine.

Christ the redeemer

The falls....

These boats take you right under the falls for the ultimate shower

A swallow tailed something-or-other

Tim models a lifejacket

Iguazu - The water falls

And how does it fall? This place is in our "50 places to see before you die" book, our friends at work had given us as a leaving present. It deserves to be. Eleanor Roosevelt upon seeing Iguazu said "Poor Niagara".

The weather when we were there was super humid so just walking around the national park was hard work and so the ride under the falls in the power boat was just what we needed to cool off!

Back in Buenos Aires

Bariloche to Iguazu involved us in two 20 hour bus rides. In between, we spent a fun couple of days with Mitch and Lara (friends from the Spanish school) in Buenos Aires. It was the first time in months we'd arrived in a familiar place!