Hi Tana, you can check out my article here for more info on this: https://charlieontravel.com/how-to-become-house-sitter

Very welcome, glad it was helpful! Manuel Antonio area is perfect for young children, though it’s better not to be out in Quepos in the late evening/night with young children as I heard from local expats that there are some drug related activities, and also a number of homeless. Quepos by day is very safe though! The buses are very, very easy. They leave from Quepos bus station in the centre of town (it’s a small town) every 10-15 minutes all day. The beaches are great for kids, soft sands and the waters are usually calm but like all of Costa Rica can be rough at certain times of the day. Yes, we were there from August – October, during rainy season. The weather was perfect. Rainy season in Costa Rica really isn’t that rainy… Usually it’s warm and clear in the day, and then rains between 5pm-6pm and then clears right up again. The only places we experienced really bad weather during rainy season were in high up mountain towns, Arenal in particular, and around the volcanoes. The weather in Quepos and MA was gorgeous!

Hi Neil, thank you for reading and congratulations on finding a house sit in Uvita. The farmer’s markets are so excellent, I can’t recommend them enough.

As for transport, we never rent a car as this is far too expensive for us. We were in a neighbourhood about 10 mins from Quepos central and would just go out onto the road and flag down a collectivo (a taxi that picks up multiple passengers). The ride would only be $1. There are tonnes of them and you’re literally never waiting for more than 2 mins. Then if we were travelling up to Manuel Antonio we would take the bus, which leaves every 15 mins from the main station. As our house sit had 3 dogs, we would never go further afield than that really. However, we have travelled through the whole of Costa Rica and across to Nicaragua and Panama by bus. The buses in Costa Rica are, for the most part, excellent.

Hope this helps! And good luck with your house sit :)

Hey Stacey – it really is awesome! I hope that you’ll get to Latin America sometime as travelling and house sitting here are really great experiences. And yes, such adorable kittens! And thank you, that’s very sweet of you to say – I’ve been working on my photography a lot, it’s by no means ideal but far better than it was a couple of years ago haha!

I love the way you blog too – loads of pictures, if you havn’t had the areal yoga pictures I wouldn’t have beleived you. That looks like fun! :)