Pura Vida - Costa Rica

  The journey continues... (Read the previous part here ) After all the bureaucracy was done, it was time for the personal belongings to be processed. In this post, I want to lay out our experiences spending the first few month in Costa Rica. This might be useful for you, if you are on the verge of emigrating to a country in Latin-america. The challenges were, that in Costa Rica, getting a hold of some things can be really challenging . So here is a list of things you  might need to bring: Good quality items Migrating from Germany, we realised that there is a big difference in the quality of american products to european brands. Even the ones imported from the US lack durability and practicability. I, for example, brought some tools, baking pans for bread and high-quality kitchen knives. Rye flour It is really hard to find rye flour. In fact. as of now, beeing in Costa Rica for ten weeks we have not found it anywhere. This is because the country does not cultivate any cereal...

Since we are in our infancy of beeing self-sufficient, we feed ourselfs with kinda basic foodstuff. Which in itself is not the worst thing to happen. I mean at least we are not hungry but our longterm goal deffinitly is being able to diversify our eating habbits . Because we are living in Costa Rica in a area, which could not get any more rural it is not only healthier, better for the enviroment and cheaper, but also necessary to produce a variety of products our own. The reason for that is, that the country does not produce many products themselves and because they are not a rich country by any means, they are also not able to import much. the result beeing, that there are not much of a selection in the local shops. So toady we harvested all the basil we had growing in the greenhouse.. Make shure to not only harvest the leaves put also the stalks. That way, the plant can better redevelop itself. We planted a lot of it in between the other plants because we read, that it is supposed t...

Todays topic will be how I planted sugarcane . Another really easy-to-cultivate plant with a great variety of usages. A few weeks ago, we tried growing fodder beet but we did not have any success with those. They did not even germinate. I figuered the best way the reuse it was by planting sugarcane. It truly is an amazing plant ! The most common use probably is making sugar , which we definitly look forward to doing. But it also has other uses. We will use it secondary for feeding animals . They will absolutely love it. Also it is a nice snack in between while working. You can just jew on a bit of a stalk and it will taste sweet. It has other benefits, like making paper , which we probably will not use. But if you are interested, I advice you to do your research on sugarcane. It is a great ecological plant . Sugarcane likes loads and loads of water , but also a good drainage for best yields. But my neighbor, who has some experience in growing sugarcane, told me, that it is really easy...

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€ (...