The drive from La Fortuna toward Quepos on a cloudy, rainy day was slow and deliberate. It was raining and the winding mountain roads twisted sharply as we drove up into the mountain, and they are flanked by deep ditches. We’d counted four cars in the ditch while in La Fortuna, which illustrates the fact that don’t have much room for error if you are driving along these roads. Because of the thick mist and light rain, the roads were…
La Fortuna was our third stop in Costa Rica and we drove in from Monteverde, along the twisting, mountainous dirt roads. The 40 kilometre drive to Tilaran took an hour and…
On the day before our drive to Monteverde, we had very strong winds at night in the Esterone area. Palm trees scraped along our metal roof all night long, punctuated by…
Above: Sunrise at Playa Buenavista. Esterones, Costa Rica – Our First Month For the first month of our visit to Costa Rica, we rented a house in a small district called…
The Ostional Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica was created in 1984 to protect one of the world’s most important nesting sites of the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle. It was a destination…
2025 started with a spectacular three week visit to Madeira. We visited because we wanted to experience the famous Levada hiking trails we had read so much about and get away…
2025 was a particularly cold winter and spring, and the weather in Collingwood did not really warm up until early June, the same month I turned 70 and I decided that…
What started as a necessity six years ago (the Doctors told me I needed to lose some weight for surgery, so I started to run five days a week), has become…
Ratatouille is a traditional French Provençal dish of stewed summer vegetables that originated as a peasant food in the southern region of France. But I knew it better from the Disney…
