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  Identify This Costa Rica Moth And Win A Costa Rica Folk Music CD!

  The first person to email me and identify this moth (the exact name please) featured in these photographs will win the Costa Rica ...

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  A Gringo Doing Time In Costa Rica – Part III Bien Jodido!

  Starting in November 2008, Doña Violeta began to make terse phone calls and text messages demanding that I pay her hundreds of dollars when ...

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  Helping An Older People’s Care Home In San Isidro

  Hogar Betania's needs are immense. Walking round, and having worked in elder care, I would immediately condemn most of the beds and ...

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  Cost of Living In Costa Rica. Electricity prices.

  If you buy a light, low priced imported car with cheap tires which is unsafe for the road, you might have paid a small price but you could ...

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  Retirement To Costa Rica – Persuading your wife to move. Part II

  After one of our visits here to close on a lot we were purchasing, I thought to myself, "how could I get here now instead of later in ...

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  Cost of Living In Costa Rica. Food and gas prices.

  We don't need heating or air conditioning which saves us a small fortune each year and, the property taxes on my home in the mountains are ...

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  Costa Rica Golf – CRGAR Charity Golf Tournament

  The annual golf tournament for the CRGAR (Costa Rican Global Association of Realtors) is a fun event where members of the real estate ...

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  A Gringo Doing Time In Costa Rica – Part II Swallowed Alive!

  I entered the jail as evening fell. Getting out of the police car, I was taken in handcuffs through the gate and stood outside the door of ...

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  A Gringo Doing Time In Costa Rica – Part I

  The prison I was sent to is called La Reforma, Unidad de Pensiones de San Rafael de Alajuela. It is a large isolated building set in ...

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  Retirement To Costa Rica – Persuading your wife to move. Part I

  We frequently have clients whose wives present the most skepticism about moving to Costa Rica. Whether we men want to admit it or not, ...

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