Breakfast and Lunch

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We recently discovered a new (to us) restaurant that serves breakfast on Sundays - Arje Restaurante y Cafe.

Here is their location:

Here’s what I ordered:

It was excellent - two eggs, bacon, avocado and toast. My drink was a lemonado with herbs.

Lance ordered a breakfast burrito:

The interior of this restaurant is really interesting - all murals, funky decorations and the cashier stand is the front end of a Volkswagen. 

For lunch, we ate at Rejn Asian Fusion Restaurant and it is located here:

We hadn’t been to this restaurant in quite a while. Their menu now includes a lot more dishes, including Filipino choices. We shared steamed gyozas and dashi tofu. The drink I ordered was called a “bobalicious”, a kind of cold “bubble tea” concoction - very rich,

Eyes on Costa Rica and Weather Records - January 2025

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During January, visits to this blog were received from the following 13 countries:

Each country is followed in brackets by the total number of visits received since records first started to be kept in November 2012.

From the time I started to keep track, the total number of countries and non-independent jurisdictions from which visits have been received remains at 137. Of this number, 13 are non-independent jurisdictions - for example, Guam which is an unincorporated territory of the United States and from which 2 visits have been received.

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The following is a summary of the weather for January in the area where we live:

January was the second month of our so-called "dry season". However, there was an unusual amount of cloud cover on many days resulting in lower daytime high temperatures and slightly higher overnight low temperatures (the clouds tending to keep heat in during the night).

On many days, the cloud cover did not produce any rain but on the 7 days that it did it produced more than three times the amount we encountered in any previous January during our time in San Roque de Grecia.

Information on current and recent weather conditions, climate change and more in various parts of Costa Rica can be obtained from the website of IMN: Instituto Meteorológico Nacional de Costa Rica (Spanish) or National Institute of Meteorology (English). IMN also has a Facebook page which may be of interest.

Atenas Art Show 2024

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On December 6,7 and 8, 2024, the annual Just in Time for Christmas art show and sale was held at Colinas del Sol, Atenas, Costa Rica.

I had a number of my art works on display:

The “Madam Justice Bovina” series.

We stayed at Colinas del Sol for a couple of nights and had a really nice room close to the swimming pool:

Of course Kermit came with us.

Leading up to the restaurant.

It was a fun weekend. We met up for lunch with friends that we had made when we lived in Atenas. The resort had live music each night in the restaurant area. 

We made dash cam videos of our drives to Atenas from Grecia and back home to Grecia. Some may find it interesting to see what the roads, towns and scenery are like in this part of Costa Rica.

The first video is from Grecia to Atenas:

Here is a map of this route:

The next video is from Atenas to Grecia:

Map of the route:

Here is a shorter route to Atenas that we might have taken. We have done so in the past but it is not currently recommended because of land falls:

Off Topic:

ARCR (Association of Residents of Costa Rica) has recently published the 2025 January-February issue of its EL RESIDENTE magazine. Lance and I are members of ARCR.

The magazine contains many articles and references which may be of general interest or to those planning a visit or move to Costa Rica.