So while Steffi was checking that I went for a walk and had my first encounters in the city. The first guy who talked to me said “Do you wanna buy some cocaine? No? Ok. How about heroin? No? Ok. I have marijuana as well? No? Ok bye." Next I walked past a sex shop and then some prostitutes then finally I found the ATM and was able to get some cash. Probably the worst first impression I've had but Steffi liked it, atleast when we where on the Tica bus she keept saying she wanted to buy a house here.

Next we were off to a guy named Victor who had replied on couchsurfing, but once we got in the taxi I started feeling really bad and weak this was because when we were on the beach last weekend I accidentally cut my foot on a broken surfboard and it has ended up getting really infected although I have been really trying to keep it clean. So this had happened on Sunday and now it was Wednesday evening and I started suffering from a bad fever.

When we got to victors place we hung out for a while and then I had to go to the bathroom but once I got inside it was a little dark so I just felt my head spin and next thing I know I hit a paper stand that was on the floor with my head, I got up felt really dizzy and had to sit down on the toilet for a while.

When I came outside again we started to try to figure out if I should go to the hospital or wait for the morning and then go to a doctor.
To get a second opinion we took a walk to a local pharmacy to get some advice what to do. She told us to go to the hospital at the night and that the closest one was a private hospital.

So we went and once we got there they first made sure we gave them money and after that they were really helpful. They took some tests and cleaned the wound and made sure that it was “only” an infection. Got me a recipe for some antibiotic and that was it. 90 000colones later we were going home to victor again and actually feeling a lot better.
Next day we sleep a long time almost 12 hours and after that we went to the bus station and on our way there we saw a really bloody street fight on the same street they had offered me everything last night. And that just made us more sure that this city really wasn’t anything for us we have stayed out of the big cities so far and will probably keep doing so for a while.

Last of all I want to thank Victor since he works the night shift and was sleeping when we left we never really got to say good bye. But he helped us a lot and thanks to him I’m a little bit less invalido today. When I’m writing this we’re sitting on the bus on the way to Cahuita on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.

chris

written by  Steffi & Chris on October 16, 2009 from San Jose, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: 212 days
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Ooh shiiit, stackars fossing! Hoppas antibiotikan hjälper!! Intressant med knark och prostitutionsupplevelsen.. dá vet jag vart jag inte ska áka :D. Lycka till med surfingen!!!

written by  kaj on October 18, 2009

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Amigos! Vilka äventyr, vilka bilder, vilken resa! Dock jobbigt med foten Chris, hoppas den är återställd muy pronto. Jag väntar med spänning på ert första spanska inlägg! Känn ingen press, nej nej. Här hemma är det kallt, grått och regnigt men uthärdligt än så länge. AIK kämpar för SM-guld, jag har lekt advokat i rättegångsteater och Salong Giraff hälsar :) Rock on, saknar er. Gran besito /La Muttita

written by  Sanna Panna on October 19, 2009

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Tjena
Lära sig surfa och prata spanska, inte illa hörni! Snart pratar ni nog flytande båda två ;)
Verkar ju vara strålande i sydamerika. Och couchsurfing verkar ju fungera hur smidigt som helst. Sara har fått igång sitt konto nu så vi ska börja "surfa" nu efter Open Water-kursen här på Koh Tao.

...PingPong showen var ingen hit förresten ;) och vi hamnade på fel ställe, berättar mer sen.
Ha det guld!!

written by  Jonte on October 19, 2009

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