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Identify This Crazy Costa Rica Critter and Win The Costa Rica Living & Retirement Secrets To Happiness DVDs
Spotted this strange creature on the wall outside our building. It's very much alive and I wondered if you could identify it...
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My Story Of Growing Up 1/2 Tica (1/2 Costa Rican) And Half American.
It wasn't until I was in College that I truly appreciated what it is to grow up "Media Tica' (half Costa Rican for those who don't know ...
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Attack of the Crabs! 9 things you didn’t know about Costa Rica’s land crabs.
For about two or three days each year in early July, crabs are everywhere. Thousands of red and purple carapaces and gigantic claws swarm ...
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HGTV House Hunters International Featuring Playa Flamingo To Air in September 2015
This time, the popular HGTV show elected to focus on not only the beaches of northwest Guanacaste including Playa Flamingo, Playa Potrero ...
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Hard Rock Café in Playas del Coco in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Rockin’ the night away…
Opened for less than a month as the Anchor tenant in the Pacifico Retail Village in Playas del Coco we now consider it properly christened ...
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How Bad Do You Want A Good Relationship?
In the last few articles, we've looked at researcher John Gottman's "Marriage Master's" and "Marriage Disasters". And we've looked at those ...
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Bladder Fights, Mask Makers and the Patron Saint of Barva de Heredia.
Each year on August 24th in the mountain town of Barva de Heredia, the young and old alike take to the streets in handmade artistic masks ...
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Visiting Selva Verde Eco Lodge and Rainforest Reserve Near the Sarapiqui River.
Having spent three peaceful, interesting days and wonderfully cool nights in Bosque de Paz, we braced ourselves for the return of heat and ...
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“Every Sperm Is Sacred In Your Neighborhood!” A private ‘guys only’ message about vasectomy.
All my friends from the private social club I started (CIGARS = Cayman Islands Gentlemen Who Appreciate Real Scotch) brought along their ...
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Film: Costa Rica Abolished its Military, Never Regretted it
In 1948 Costa Rica abolished its military, something widely deemed impossible in the United States. This film documents how that was done ...
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