I have heard this more times than I can remember. Living in Costa Rica does not have the conveniences that you find in the States. There are no Walmart’s, Target’s or Home Depot’s. If you live outside of the valley in the beach areas you have to drive into the valley to do most of [...]
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Gas prices have reached an all time high in Costa Rica and it is going up again next week. Since you buy gas in liters here and your odometer is in kilometers it is difficult for some of us to do the conversion to actually find out what we are paying for gas by the [...]
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Well it’s been a year now. I have blogging about Costa Rica for one year next week. It doesn’t seem like it has been a year but when you read back through all the entries, you can see the changes that have taken place over this year especially with immigration issues.
Whether you have questions about [...]
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Today is Mothers Day in the states but it is not celebrated in Costa Rica until August 15. For us Expats, we often get 2 mothers days which is really cool.
Mothers should be honored several times a year in my opinion being a mother of 3 myself. I mean to get those special handmade cards [...]
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YUK! They are everywhere. Apparantly when the dry season ends and the rainy season begins garrapatas (ticks) come out in record numbers. I have never seen so many ticks in one place. We have treated the animals with everything available and they still are crawling off the dogs and onto the furniture/floor. Our cats have [...]
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We just came from the American Embassy where we had to get the children’s passports renewed. We were in and out in an hour which was incredible. We were the first ones there when it opened and the first ones out as the line started to grow. Key is to get there at 8:00am on [...]
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