Pura Vida - Costa Rica

My flight to Costa Rica in June of 2021 was the first long-haul flight I have ever made. All the more important to make a good plan. I had a really difficult time planning the trip and found it hard to get all the information I needed. So I will try to give a simple overview over what has to be fought of when going to Costa Rica. Also, everthing was under the special condition of covid-protocols. 1 - The flight First step for us was to look up a flight. I can`t really comment on this issue, because you may come from a different place than me. In generell there are multiple companies flying to Costa Rica regularly. For example Airfrance, Lufthansa, KLM, Edelweiss Air or Iberia. We travelled with AIRFRANCE , and were really satisfied. Direct flights go from PARIS . LUFTHANSA flies from FRANKFURT direct, KLM is something for the dutchman from AMSTERDAM , EDELWEISS AIR from ZÜRICH and IBERIA lets you travel from MADRID . As of the date of this post, the cheapest option is around 220€ (...

 Welcome back, visitor :) This will be the first real post on this blog in the form of a series I really creativly called "THE TRAVEL" I want to detail step by step how the heck we ended up in the jungle on the other side of the world, starting in Germany. A big step down, right? At least that is, what most people we talk to about our plans thought.              "What if you get sick?"          or             "How do we even stay in touch, when you don`t have internet?"          or             "Don`t go out at night!" For us, this country definitly is no step down by any means. To answer these typical questions: We have medical support here aswell. The idea, that you just die, or something, when you get sick once you leave the EU is kinda stupborn. In most places health care is even better than in Germany. The...

"¿Cómo estás?" or "hello how are you?" This blog is going to be in english (but you can translate it on the left site of the screen) because this is as much spanish as I spoke when I arrived in Costa Rica. Hi, my name is Vincent and this is partly diary for my journey, called life, and partly it`s supposed to be a source of information for all sorts of topics. It has been seven weeks since me and my girlfriend arrived on the "rich coast", which is the translation for the name of this beautiful country, we hope to call home for the rest of our lifes. We were both born and raised in Germany with no roots in Costa Rica, what so ever. incomparable sunsets But why Costa Rica then? I can only answer for myself. Potentially my partner will give some of her thoughts on this blog in the future aswell, but of rightnow, you are stuck with me solely ;) For me, it is manly adventure. I got the oppurtunity to go and I took it. I would have never forgave myself for not t...