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		<title>Cabuya Island: When setting overtakes story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years back, while traveling in Costa Rica, I saw a small island just off the southern coast of the Nicoya Peninsula. It was rainy season, so the island was a tangle of green rising up from the blue sea. A whitewashed archway marked where the island’s beach gave way to the green interior. Three or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian crime writer to speak in Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Deverell, well-known novelist, activist, and former trial attorney, will speak about &#8220;A Writer&#8217;s Life&#8221; in Costa Rica’s Playa Herradura (near Jacó), on Jan 24, 2012. The talk, from 11 am to noon and costing 5000 colones (US$10), is part of Allyson Latta’s writing &#38; yoga retreat but is also open to the public. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write a novel in a month? NaNoWriMo in Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come November I’ll be holed up in a rented beach house, trying to knock out at least 50,000 words in the space of a month. I won’t be alone. In fact, I’ll have tens of thousands of other writers along for the ride, courtesy of NaNoWriMo. When I first heard about National Novel Writing Month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A reader asks: Can I live on $20K/year in Costa Rica?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of Living Abroad in Costa Rica sometimes email me with questions about starting a new life in Costa Rica. I&#8217;m honored and humbled by these requests, and often wish that I had a whole crew of people&#8211;living in different parts of Costa Rica and with vastly different experiences of the country&#8211;to help me frame [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rican director crowd-funds feature film</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using a strategy all but unknown in his home country, Costa Rican filmmaker Hernán Jiménez is utilizing 21st-century methods to fund a portrait of a family&#8211;and country&#8211;in crisis. Jiménez, now based in San Francisco, just wound up a wildly successful experiment in crowd-funding, a new online method for financing anything from the arts to medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erin Van Rheenen interviewed about Costa Rica on Bay Area Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erin Van Rheenen talks about Costa Rica on Bay Area Focus]]></description>
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		<title>Artist’s retreat in Costa Rica by architect Gianni Botsford</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the weather turns cold up north and I’m kicking myself for not buying that plot of land on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, I start dreaming of what kind of house I would have built there (and still may, Economy willing). If I ever become a landowner, I&#8217;ll humbly ask Italian-born architect Gianni Botsford to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ping Pong in Playas del Coco&#8217; published in Matador Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was especially happy that one of the commenters on the story said, "Oh my gosh! I couldn’t even believe what I was reading. I lived in Coco for a year, and this sums it up."]]></description>
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		<title>Q &amp; A with author of Living Abroad in Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the third edition of Living Abroad in Costa Rica started hitting the bookstores, Eva Zimmerman at travelmatters.com asked me a few questions about Costa Rica. Eva Zimmerman: What are a couple of main reasons people make the move to Costa Rica? What draws people there? Erin Van Rheenen: Costa Rica’s physical beauty is often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3rd edition of &#8216;Living Abroad in Costa Rica&#8217; launches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. Ok, visiting new tree house communities in the jungle or soaking in hot springs near an active volcano might not qualify as hardships. But keeping up to date on Costa Rica’s deeper changes kept me on the road for months this year and then at [...]]]></description>
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