Costa Rica Calling

Sunday, 30 December 2012

New Year, New Start

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The tradition of the Christmas creche is widespread in countries with a Roman Catholic cultural background and Costa Rica is no exception....
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Thursday, 20 December 2012

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now?

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I landed at Juan Santamaria airport on the evening of the eighteenth of December. The cheese landed on the evening of the nineteenth, ha...
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Saturday, 24 November 2012

We're no awa' tae bide awa'

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Supposedly sung by the 51st Highland division going into the bag at St.Valery sur Somme in 1940. Father wouldn't know...he and a f...
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Thursday, 15 November 2012

A Week is a Long Time on Avenida Segunda

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  A week ago, riot police were hauling demonstrators away in paddy waggons, politicians were slugging it out with police and human righ...
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Friday, 9 November 2012

From Peace to Violence...in Hours.

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We were driving into San Jose yesterday. The Men were going to continue work on the house there while waiting for the next instalment ...
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Monday, 5 November 2012

coffee

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     When you climb up to the coffee plantation above the house, this is the view you have looking down into the Central Valley.....
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Saturday, 3 November 2012

And shall Trelawny Live, or shall Trelawny die...

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By Tre, Pol and Pen, ye shall know the Cornish men....but this one slunk in under the radar rejoicing in the name of McGuigan. Our fri...
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Retired, I'd lived in France for about twenty years after leaving the U.K. Tired of listening to the 'living the dream' nonsense, tired of people shooting my rooks, I thought it was time to spill some beans from the cassoulet. And having spilled the beans, I'm starting on the rice...out here in Costa Rica.
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