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Understanding Cost Factors for your Project in Costa Rica
It is far too often that I get the question asked to me: "How much does it cost to build a house in Costa Rica?". There is no real answer to that specific question as there are too many...
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Healthy Eating in Heredia
El Mercadito de la EsquinaThis quaint, artisanal market is the perfect place to pick up local and organic items for your kitchen. Owners Pablo and Pia are extremely helpful and provide any advice or suggestions that you may need....
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Sea Turtle Rescuing: Why just one?
Sea turtles are one of the most ancient creatures on planet earth; in Stone Age they witnessed the extinction of the dinosaurs and the dawn of the human race.But the worldwide number of living sea turtles is decreasing. According...
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Snakes Alive! A world first in Costa Rica
Last Saturday I witnessed a world first.In saying that it also means that I witnessed a first for Costa rica, a first for Central America, also a first for South America. A trilogy of firsts all before ten am...
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Tip for the weekend: a trip to the Barva volcano
Are you longing to escape San José this weekend? Not in the mood to stand in the long traffic jams towards to the Poas? Massive lover of cloud forests? Maybe even cheese? Yes to all of them? A day...
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Knowing The Points System That Can Cost You Your Driver’s License
Since 2013, many modifications took place, regarding the Law 9078 (Law of Transit), and the measurements implemented by the Road Security Council and the Headquarters of Road Education, from which the points system for the drivers arose.The points system...
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How I Adopted a Dog
I did it! I adopted a dog, one week ago!It’s a shoe chewing, golden, playful, approximately 6 months old, happy, almost a grown-up, female, 10 kg weighing — dog. And a chucho, a mongrel straight from the streets.The DecisionFor...
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Australia to Costa Rica: Raising My Son on the Road
This is the third time we have been to Costa Rica, and this time we are here to stay.According to my son whom is about to turn ten years old next week, we are not moving. Well, he isn’t....
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How to Blow Up Your Bicycle
Dutch and bicycles are like tulips and windmills, Gouda cheese and bad breathe, DJ Tiësto and hearing loss…… inseparable.Bicycle addicts everywhere can agree, riding a bike gives you a sense of freedom (and a touch of anxiety on the...
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Costa Rica Tackles Local Community Problems with Index of Social Progress
Costa Rican private enterprises and state institutions launch Costa Rica Propone.The new initiative is oriented towards the organization of data regarding the 81 cantons. It consists on the use of an Social Progress Index (IPS on the Spanish abbreviation...
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Why Costa Rica Would Be the Safest Place in the World to Be if World War III Started?
In an increasingly unstable world, the threat of a global conflict—World War III—looms as a terrifying possibility. Nations with...