{"id":1874,"date":"2009-04-10T18:09:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2009\/04\/10\/samara\/"},"modified":"2009-04-10T18:09:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:09:45","slug":"samara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Samara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally made it to Samara at 11pm last night. The bus was totally packed with some folks standing for the five and a half hour journey from San Jose. I was wedged in behind some guy who insisted on reclining his seat \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\nAt the bus station I  met a young couple from Switzerland who are going to the same school as me, but for 3 weeks..<br \/>\nEventually my host turned up on a trail bike, so with my rucsac strapped to my back we roared off into the night!  Hairy or what \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\nI have my own one room apartment with kitchen area, shower etc so quite luxuourios although the bed feels very board like.<\/p>\n<p>My hosts are very friendly, but to say there is a language barrier is an understatement, Emily where are you? <\/p>\n<p>Breakfast was lovely fruit and toast with some local cake speciality. Dinner is at 7, should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Samara itself is a pleasant seaside resort, I mapped the whole village with my GPS this morning and also walked along the beach &#8211; all to try and find an open wifi connection, full marks to Hotel Las Brisas del Pacifico &#8211; you will have my trade for the rest of the week \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The weather is much hotter and stickier than San Jose so I&#8217;m sure I will be ready for the mountains after a week although maybe I should do the 3 week course here!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p-1600-1200-568f4751-98e9-4055-8861-b855d6849f67.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p-1600-1200-568f4751-98e9-4055-8861-b855d6849f67.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally made it to Samara at 11pm last night. The bus was totally packed with some folks standing for the five and a half hour journey from San Jose. I was wedged in behind some guy who insisted on reclining his seat \ud83d\ude41 At the bus station I met a young couple from Switzerland who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}