While today we only had scheduled a drive of moderate length, around 240 miles, we also had the infamous Costa Rica/Panama border to cross, and this explained why we were packed and ready to go outside the hotel a shade after 5.30am, just as it was getting light! After completely emptying the hotel's complimentary supply ...

It would seem that the intensive routine of going to bed late and getting up early has become embedded in our subconsciousness because even after a hideously late night of San Josean nightlife, we were all up, fresh and alert after just 5 hours of sleep...a bizarre but welcome side effect of such a time ...

Today was yet another early start, and unfortunately without breakfast, but we had something pretty exciting to wake up for. We had been promised a tour of the Miravalles geothermal electricity generating facility about 25km away from Liberia, after which we would continue with our journey until we reached San Jose, the capital of Costa ...

Despite getting to bed exceedingly late the night before, owing to some dodgy circuit breakers messing up our charging (we got it sorted in the end though!), we were up at 8am for our press event. So after a quick breakfast, we convened downstairs around the pool for an event with an exceptionally high press ...