The Polar Bear.

All excited, we return to San Jose a week later to meet with the solicitor. Keen with anticipation about owning our first car in Costa Rica; looking forward to the long drive home in our truck!

Quelle surprise! The documents have not been completed! The seller, Fernanda, is blaming the solicitor for not contacting her and vice-versa. Who to believe? 

To cut a long story short, Fernanda was selling the truck on behalf of the architectural company that she works for: the employee whose truck it was recently passed away, so the company want to sell it on (superstitious lot these Latinos!). However, and this is where it gets complicated, the truck was a leased vehicle and nobody in the firm seems to have the power of attorney to sell! What a mess! We are advised by the solicitor that to get the paperwork in order, it could take at least another fortnight. Two more weeks??!!?? He recommends that we forget this car and look for another one.

Yet again, we leave the solicitors office feeling despondent!

What do we do now? Back to the drawing board. In other words, spending more time looking at cars, traipsing from one showroom to the other! How much more of this car-shopping can anyone of us withstand? I for one, and I am sure I speak for the kids, are at breaking point!

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A week later and we are now the proud owners of a Nissan Navarra LE: we bit the bullet and bought a new one. After all, a week before the new 2014 models hit the streets, there were bargains to be had and we got the annual tax, about $1000, thrown in for free! 

We have christened it 'The Polar Bear'. Why, when you live in a hot country would you name your transport after an animal that will never be found in the Tropics? Obviously because ... the damn thing is white!!!