Back to San Jose

 We took the main road back to the capital, quite heavy traffic and road works..returned our car to the excellent " Jumbo Cars " and booked into our fine colonial style hotel, the Granero, in the town centre.

We walked around the centre and the rather scruffy central park. What with earthquakes and volcanos, not much of the colonial architecture has survived and there's not a lot to see. However we did a very good walking tour which involved visiting a  local fruit and veg market which was really informative and then a handicraft market which was rather dull. Getting around was easy with the efficient and cheap Ubers and we ate very well.

On our last day we visited the excellent Nacional Museo of Costa Rico. It's in what was the main army fortress and barracks before they decided they would have no armed forces. Great displays, live music in the gardens. The museum also has a butterfly house in  a Kew Garden like greenhouse and which had a number of  the elusive Blue Morpho butterflies which Nic had tried to photograph in the wild without much success.The sight of the flash of their vivid blue wings had been a highlight of the trip.And now they were here in from of our eyes!.