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		<title>First Trip to the Big Lake &#8211; Part Final</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Dull Roar</dc:creator>
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The slow, but long hike at Hanging Bridges whetted our appetite for some lunch and the German Bakery looked even more inviting in our minds' eyes than it had when we'd passed it up in Nuevo Arenal. So, we headed back that way, passing the wood carv...]]></description>
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		<title>Gay but Str8 Friendly Coyaba Tropical in Manuel Antonio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coyaba Tropical is a small, GAY but very straight-friendly, B&#38;B located in Manuel Antonio Costa Rica.Gay owned and operated, Coyaba Tropical is a GREAT gay option if you want a little more privacy combined with a family type of atmosphere.  And I'm not...]]></description>
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		<title>First Trip to the Big Lake &#8211; Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The drive to the other end of Lake Arenal from Tilarán is steeped in scenery on both sides of the road. It's narrow and winding, but generally in good condition. Being a tourist area there is substantial traffic, so the driver can't spend too much ...]]></description>
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		<title>Charity Chili and All the Fixin&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The 5th Annual Atenas Charity Chili Cook-off is almost upon us and it's all hands in the kitchen. Scheduled for Sunday, February 12, the event is expected to attract over 1000 people this year and raise much more than the $3500 they donated last year ...]]></description>
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		<title>First Trip to the Big Lake &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Dull Roar</dc:creator>
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Back in late October when we visited Keko Diez (TI5KD) in Alajuela so that Sean could take his ham radio test, we met Rich (TI7/AA2UP) and his wife Penny who invited us to plan a trip up to their part of Costa Rica for a visit some time. Before Sean...]]></description>
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		<title>Villa Hermosa Guest House in La Fortuna</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doin' Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Villa Hermosa is a guest house/bed &#38; breakfast just outside La Fortuna Costa Rica and D'Angelo and myself made a video, here's us eating lunch between video shoots.Porch area at Villa Hermosa.When someone says, "...a little slice of PARADISE." they...]]></description>
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		<title>High Times in the High Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabulista de Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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              Here we are, time for another Spanish/English dinner party with Marcial and Sadie tomorrow night, which means that almost two weeks have past since my last entry here. If I thought that “retirement” meant inactivity, bo...]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve got nothing to say, but it&#8217;s OK, &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Dull Roar</dc:creator>
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Good morning, good morning, good morning, ah. - Lennon/McCartney.


Dawn is here, lifting Night's cloak with slender hands, asking her if she would like to take a load off, sit by the fire, and warm herself with a cup of hot rompope before dozing off ...]]></description>
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		<title>KILLER Pico de Gallo with VIDEO</title>
		<link>http://doingcostarica.blogspot.com/2012/01/pico-de-gallo-recipe-costa-rica-food.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doin' Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We LOVE Pico de Gallo and we LOVE videotaping these Costa Rica Cooking Classes...Whoo HOO!'Pico de Gallo' is Spanish for "rooster's beak". From Wikipedia:"According to food writer Sharon Tyler Herbst,it is so called because originally it was eaten with...]]></description>
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		<title>President Chinchilla&#8217;s Christmas Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Dull Roar</dc:creator>
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Two days after Christmas 2011, La Presidénte Laura Chinchilla gave many people in Costa Rica a belated present. She signed into law yet another tax. This one is aimed at a long-standing tradition here for protecting one's assets, namely Socieadades A...]]></description>
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		<title>Rough Road to a New Year&#8217;s Bash</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabulista de Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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Dennis &#38; Gerardo

We’ve had a great start to the New Year, beginning with a festive New Year’s Eve party at the home of our friends, Dennis &#38; Gerardo of Pure Life Development real estate. In the two years we’ve been here, they have been...]]></description>
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		<title>Patacones Costa Rica Recipe VIDEO</title>
		<link>http://doingcostarica.blogspot.com/2012/01/patacones-tostones-plantains-costa-rica.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doin' Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patacones aka tostones, fritos or plantain crisps are a VERY popular snack in Costa Rica and all over Latin America for that matter. Would you like ONE?We LOVE these Costa Rica Cooking Classes our friend Scott is conducting here in La Fortuna.  So info...]]></description>
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		<title>Ceviche Recipe with VIDEO</title>
		<link>http://doingcostarica.blogspot.com/2012/01/ceviche-costa-rica-recipe-cooking.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doin' Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was worth moving to Costa Rica for the Ceviche.  Yummy!Admittedly, I didn't know what Ceviche was until I visited Costa Rica for the first time back in 2004.  Gene Conti, owner of Palo Verde Resort in La Fortuna, and who subsequently totally dicked ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mojito Costa Rican Style VIDEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doin' Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Costa Rica didn't originate the Mojito but they may as well have...VIDEO below.'ALL' cooking and 'NO' drinking would make the Costa Rica Cooking Class in La Fortuna still a fun thing...but a little less so.  I mean, really, what is Garlic Fried Yucca w...]]></description>
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		<title>Ñampi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Dull Roar</dc:creator>
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There are but a small handful of words in Spanish that start with its 15th letter of the alphabet. Literally, you could count them just using your fingers. Ñampi is one. In English, we call it Taro. Every culture that uses this remarkable food pla...]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Festivities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Dull Roar</dc:creator>
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We hosted a potluck afternoon dinner Sunday with friends and neighbors to celebrate Christmas Day. Dishes included fresh homemade pizza, tropical salads, pejibaye dip, pumpkin pie, and an assortment of other desserts, including rice pudding, and a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Day in Atenas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabulista de Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With sunny blue skies and a light breeze blowing, Christmas Day in Atenas was celebrated by many families in the Central Park where the Fuerza Policia (local police) had set up their awning and were handing out food and gifts to the kids. There were tr...]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Worry Honey, It&#8217;s Only a Flesh Wound!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Dull Roar</dc:creator>
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Except for this little glitch my Christmas Eve has been going pretty well. For weeks now I've been trimming brush on our unforested one hectare. I never work more than one tankful of fuel a day, which equals 2 or 3 hours depending on which blade ...]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holiday Party Time!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabulista de Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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Happy Holidays to all my loyal readers! I hope your holidays are blessed with joy, good friends and beloved family and that the New Year brings you prosperity, peace and good health. 


Flowers on our fence
We are in full-blown Christmas party ...]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica &#8211; Gallo Pinto Recipe VIDEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Costa Rica staple- Gallo Pinto.Truth is, in Costa Rica, Gallo Pinto can be eaten morning, noon and night... and often is.  It's a staple here and with good reason, if made correctly it's a tasty, TASTY treat- YUMMY! if you ask me.Our friend Scott, wh...]]></description>
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		<title>Pura Vida is BULLSH*T- whoops!</title>
		<link>http://doingcostarica.blogspot.com/2011/12/pura-vida-costa-rica-is-bullshit.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doin' Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Costa Rica is Pura Vida and Pura Vida is Costa Rica."Now I lay me down to sleep,I pray the Lord my soul to keep,If I shall die before I wake...  I was probably murdered and drowned in Arenal Lake."I can't even count how many death threats I've received...]]></description>
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		<title>Sean Reaches a Milestone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Dull Roar</dc:creator>
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No, Sean didn't suddenly skip 6 grades and graduate High School. To those of us brought up in the States, however, the formality pictured above could give you that impression. This is 6th grade graduation, Tico style. I don't really speculate too mu...]]></description>
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		<title>Puerto Viejo Costa Rica- BEST Restaurant Name Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puerto Viejo Costa Rica is one of our favorite places to CHILL. *Puerto Viejo is on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica close to the Panamanian border.We love Puerto Viejo for a few reasons, but one is the FOOD.. and especially the food at a place called,...]]></description>
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		<title>Good Friends, Gourmet Food and Golf!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabulista de Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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Tico chefs

What a whirlwind of activity, travel and parties the last two weeks have been for us! It’s hard to know where to start on our various adventures. There was Francis and Brian’s excellent backyard party mentioned in my last post...]]></description>
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		<title>The Casamata Slide on the Pan-American Highway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Dull Roar</dc:creator>
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Months ago there was a huge slide about midway between San Isidro and San José on the Pan-American highway. It has made travel between these two parts of the country's interior unpredictable since they don't post any signs on the highway itself abo...]]></description>
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		<title>DICK dude SCREWS US!</title>
		<link>http://doingcostarica.blogspot.com/2011/12/things-to-do-fortuna-costa-rica.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doin' Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We sell adventure tours in La Fortuna Costa Rica on the CHEAP and we do this so YOU, the traveler, can have a GREAT time in La Fortuna without paying an arm and leg to do so... but because of what happened yesterday we might have to reassess if it's wo...]]></description>
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		<title>Change of Seasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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As Fabulista de Costa Rica (Kat Sunlove) notes in her most recent blog posting, Costa Rican Spring is here. We're already noting an increase in the butterfly population up here in the mountains, the rain is tapering off, and inspirational sunsets are...]]></description>
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		<title>December = Springtime in Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabulista de Costa Rica</dc:creator>
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What a thrill! We had a Blue Morpho butterfly flutter through our backyard yesterday afternoon. What a gorgeous creature it is with its iridescent azul upper wings. A friend said that the butterflies are returning in force now that springtime i...]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing La Fortuna Park limb by limb</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[La Fortuna Costa Rica has one of the BEST small town parks in in the country BUT......this is what they did 4 days ago:For some reason the 'powers that be' in La Fortuna seem determined to deconstruct the park tree by tree.  It started some months ago....]]></description>
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		<title>FUN Things to do La Fortuna Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arenal Volcano aside, there's TONS of things to do in La Fortuna Costa Rica.Here's just a few of the adventures and tours you can experience in the La Fortuna/Arenal area.  There's many more and we'll be posting videos of those as we do them, but these...]]></description>
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