I bought a couple of nights on sky auction.com at the Gran Hotel in central San Jose specifically for the end of my trip. It’s a vintage 1930’s building with a few updates, like wifi in the room, but not air conditioning. My room had a small window that opened only so far onto an indoor sort of courtyard so
On the last day of my Gate 1 tour I asked Ricardo to suggest a good place to buy coffee, since I didn’t want to buy it and carry it around for more than a week. He suggested a grocery store right across the pedestrian street from San Jose hotel, Gran Hotel, and even suggested a couple of brands. I
The morning started at Museo de Oro Precolumbino y Numismatica, a three in one museum cleverly hidden underground at Plaza de la Cultura. This museum houses an exhibit on the money of Costa Rica, it’s history and the influence of the coffee culture and Spanish, an art exhibit and the Pre-Columbian gold. There is a Heidelberg press included in the