Tamarindo and beyond

We had a great day yesterday and actually permitted ourselves a meal out last night. We found a beach front bar which served 2 for 1 beers until 7:00 and sat there playing cards whilst we had a few drinks and Sam had a couple of chocolate milkshakes. The bar was really nice, surrounded by palm trees and played really chilled music, from there we headed to the pizza restaurant next to our hotel and stuffed ourselves with pizzas and hamburgers. It was the first night the three of us have been out on an evening here and was a really nice change.

Today we are trying to book a shuttle to get down to Santa Teresa - there is one advertised as leaving every day so we thought it would be easy to hop on tomorrow but we now find that the shuttle needs to have 4 people and at the moment there are just the three of us so we aren't sure if we can go tomorrow, we have to check back in a few hours - another option is to get the bus but apparently this is a really long winded way of doing it and would be a nightmare with all our baggage, the route takes four hours on the shuttle and about twice as long on the bus. Another option would be to hire a car but we haven't looked into that yet. We are also about to book our flights to Peru, I think we will fly from Lima to Cuzco and then we have been advised to stay in the Sacred Valley because it's not so high and we won't get altitude sickness - from here we will go to Machu Picchu and then probably back to Lima from Cuzco.

Will has got an infection in his big toe (of course we hardly hear about it because he never moans!) so he is soaking it twice a day in boiling, salty water and putting cream on it - check out the picture!!