Around The World In 80 Waves

Jaco is Costa Rica’s main surf town and I am going to hang out here for a few days. There is miles of sand for you to pick a break to surf on, loads of surf shops and plenty of hotels in town, although some of them are asking extortionate money for one night’s stay.

I realise I will not get much sympathy on this but the heat is sometimes unbearable here. My clean shirt was almost wringing wet with perspiration after 5 minutes of just walking in the sun yesterday. I cant drink fast enough to keep up with it and am feeling really drained half the time purely due to dehydration. I have picked the dry season for my visit to Central America, hoping to escape before the rains start, but at times I would simply love a bit of British drizzle to cool me down.

I went for a scalping yesterday to try and help with the heat. After my moustache I had thought my next hirsuite project should be growing a flowing mane whilst I had the opportunity to do so, and have not had my hair cut since LA towards that end. However my hair is so thick that as Clem says ‘The boufant will not be denied!’ and it has been feeling like I am walking around with a woolly hat on my head. It had to go as a consequence

I am not going to get into one on this but you can also imagine my delight when my mobile phone’s internet stopped working again as soon as I got across the Gulf of Nicoya. Does anybody know where I might get a mobile phone company voodoo doll?