After returing to San Jose to pick up some luggage I met up again with Patricia and we headed for Playa Flamingo on the north eastern coast of Costa Rica to go diving.

Unfortunately I didn't take pictures but we had quite an unbelievable story happing to us on the way up north, just about half a hour from Liberia: the roads in Costa Rica are generally in not the very best condition (well, they are really bad, actually!) so suddenly the left rear tire virtually exploded in the middle of nowhere in blistering heat...
Patricia pulled the car safly over to the side street, we got out of the car, walked around it, looked at the exploded tire, started to discuss options... when we suddenly realized that in the middle of nowhere we actually pulled over just about 100m away form a... car mechanics place specialising in tires! What a coincidence! So to cut the story short: they couldnt fix the tire because it was really all torn up but they had a used replacement tire and worked on the car for 30 min... for only 5000 Colones (about 10 US dollars)! How lucky can you get?
We were wondering and laughing for quite a while in the car afterwards about the guy working at that tire-garage: what must he have been thinking, seeing us pulling over with a torn tire, then standing in the blistering sun looking at the tire pretty hopeless and discussing options... before finally walking over to him to ask for help. The whole time he must have been watching us, knowing that these two foreigner would sooner or later walk over to his place...