Who doesn’t love the weekend? Of course everyone, everywhere, does. There was even that awful 70’s movie (you know, the one with disco queen Donna Summer) entitled, Thank God it’s Friday! But there is something really special about a Costa Rican weekend. The sun always seems to shine a little brighter, especially on SUN-day. Pueblos […]
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When I really began to move around to various parts of Costa Rica, especially the diverse barrios of its capital city, San Jose, I noticed a peculiar thing. At least it seemed peculiar to someone like me from a different culture. That is, that life here is lived, for the most part, outside. I say […]
Costa Rican society is decidedly polite compared to that of the U.S. It might be the biggest area of culture shock one will experience after being here for a long time and then returning to the U.S. At least, that has been my experience. Now there are exceptions to every rule. Those apply here on […]
Before arriving to Costa Rica I had never really thought about those little creatures that are so small they seem more like insects than birds. I mean they also exist in the U.S., but I never really noticed them that much. Here it is a different story. They are so plentiful in Costa Rica that […]
For my first years in Costa Rica I was always a city dweller. Actually, for the first couple years I lived in hotels until I finally rented an apartment in Paseo Colón, a business district of San Jose. I had my travel agency office downstairs and my apartment upstairs, so basically I never really left […]
I have said often that no matter where you are in Costa Rica you are going to find three things in close proximity: a bus stop, a bar (with an Imperial sign hanging) and a soccer field. In Costa Rica fútbol, or soccer as it is called in the U.S., is religion. Every kid grows […]
It probably comes as no big surprise to readers of this blog (hopefully there is someone out there reading it??) that I own a travel business. You know the one I shamelessly plug from time to time (Package Costa Rica). Just like any business there are aspects of it that don’t exactly get me too […]
Costa Rica has a reputation for the exotic and mysterious. I guess because it is so, well, exotic and mysterious. But there is no place that exemplifies these characteristics more than the Peninsula de Osa. There are remote corners of Costa Rica where man never hath trodden and deep in the heart of Osa may […]
People sometimes carry the wrong idea in their heads about Costa Rica. Costa Rica is not Cancun, or Cozumel or Saint Martin. Sure we have our large, swanky and all-inclusive resorts….most of them tucked away up in the North Pacific (Guanacaste). But here is a little secret that will help you get the most out […]
Well now we finally get to the really good stuff. Truth is, you can take the boy out of Carolina, but you just ain’t gonna take Carolina out of the boy. Back home we used to have big barbecue parties we like to call “pig pickins.” So I grew up with the aroma of swine […]
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