Alajuela
Touring the town
07.04.2009 - 08.04.2009
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Met 2 fellow travellers, Rob and Eva, who had come down from Vancouver with snowboards in tow. We explored Alajuela's downtown together and it was nice to have some amicable comanions along while we acclimate to being strangers in a strange land. Not that Costa Rica is especially strange, but anyway...We walked through the central park, which had a dry fountain that some kids were running around in. Well, it wasn't completely dry. There was a festering puddle that was shooting overwhelming wafts of feces at us. Interestingly, the kids seemed entirely oblivious, or at least indifferent, to the stench as they happily scaled the walls of the fountain, inches away from this rank sludge. Past the park, we popped into a corner bar for a beer and some food. Tried out the local Pilsen beer served in a glass with ice. A little watery for my taste, but as Rob said, it was refreshing. 
Posted by olin 09.04.2009 08:45 Archived in Costa Rica
Don't knock the ice in the beer. The secret is to only to pour smaller glasses with the ice. So damn refreshing its scarey.
09.04.2009 by peasus