Rewind to San Jose

A few things I saw in the city...

A small park a few blocks from my host family. These seem to be fairly common around here. There never were that many people at this particular park. More popular locations seemes to be the outlet mall (across the street from this park), the San Pedro Mall (down the street), and downtown in general (including several more parks, businesses, etc...). Though downtown is only about a mile, San Pedro is considered a suburb of San Jose.

While walking downtown, we stumbled upon a parade of kids supporting presidential candadite Oscar Arias. A noble Peace Prize winner and supporter of CAFTA, Arias is said to have a good chance of winning the election this February.


This is the downtown plaza of San Jose. Right in the middle of the city, there were lots of people relaxing in the park or passing through. We stopped here on our last day in the city and I played mandolin before we headed to Mercado Central for lunch at a "soda" - a diner basically.