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	<title>Living Abroad in Costa Rica &#187; Guanacaste</title>
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		<title>Flying from San José, Costa Rica, to the Nicoya Peninsula: SANSA vs. Nature Air</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2011/10/flying-from-san-jose-costa-rica-to-the-nicoya-peninsula-sansa-vs-nature-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting Around]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Santa Teresa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shipping policy on surfboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tambor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest difference between the two airlines is location. Sansa is located within walking distance of Juan Santamaria Airport. You can fly to San José, Costa Rica, from the U.S., then roll your suitcase over to the Sansa terminal. NatureAir flies out of Tobias Bolaños Airport, a 20-minute cab ride from the international airport.]]></description>
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		<title>Jet Blue to add NYC – Guanacaste route in November</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news for New Yorkers heading for the beaches of Costa Rica. Starting on November 17, Jet Blue will add four weekly direct flights from JFK airport In New York City to Daniel Oduber Quirós Airport (LIR)  in Liberia, the provincial capital of Guanacaste province. The timing is perfect. November is when the rainy season [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ping Pong in Playas del Coco&#8217; published in Matador Travel</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2011/01/my-ping-pong-in-playas-del-coco-published-in-matador-travel/</link>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Expat Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playas del Coco]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/10/q-a-with-author-of-living-abroad-in-costa-rica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Costa Rican Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expat Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Things to Do]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chinchilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Abroad in Costa Rica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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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>Parklands in Costa Rica help reduce poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/06/parklands-in-costa-rica-help-reduce-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/06/parklands-in-costa-rica-help-reduce-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recently released report from Georgia State University gives us yet another reason to protect the rainforest: parklands, it turns out, can also help with economic development. Studying data from Costa Rica and Thailand, researchers concluded that national parks in developing countries can actually help to reduce poverty in the areas surrounding the preserves. &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old biologists never die, they just develop DNA scanners</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/03/dan-janzen-pioneering-conservationist-now-developing-dna-scanner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/03/dan-janzen-pioneering-conservationist-now-developing-dna-scanner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Fraser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Janzen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rewilding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ray Beise of Pura Jungla sent me a link to a great interview with Daniel Janzen, the pioneering conservationist who helped create the 300,000-acre Area de Conservación Guanacaste and proved that denuded tropical forests can be brought back from the brink. In Yale&#8217;s Environment 360 magazine, Janzen is interviewed by Caroline Fraser, author of Rewilding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turtle trouble in Costa Rica</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/turtle-trouble-in-costa-rica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/turtle-trouble-in-costa-rica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leatherbacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[los baules national park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playa grande]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playa junquillal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a great article in the New York Times in November about the plight of sea turtles in Costa Rica, home to some of their favorite nesting beaches. I was recently in Tamarindo, a town just south of Playa Grande and its Las Baulas National Park (a baul is a leatherback turtle, which can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobbed by grasshoppers in a Guanacaste treehouse</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/mobbed-by-grasshoppers-in-a-guanacaste-treehouse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/mobbed-by-grasshoppers-in-a-guanacaste-treehouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Places to Stay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bugs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a house up in the trees, open to the elements, with a view of a pristine stretch of Costa Rican beach. It’s Paul and Jeanne Pidcock’s house, on the Pura Jungla eco-reserve, where Ray Beise took a dried-up cow pasture and lovingly reforested it into something lush and beautiful. He sells lots to like-minded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ping pong death match in Playas del Coco, Costa Rica</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/ping-pong-death-match-in-playas-del-coco-costa-rica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/ping-pong-death-match-in-playas-del-coco-costa-rica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expat Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[La Vida Loca]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At this point I lose track of the game. I’m nursing my Coca Light, watching the drama of first world men and third world girls. That I am neither gives me an odd feeling of dislocation, especially when I see the girls eyeing my man. More than one guy arriving in Costa Rica has dumped his age-appropriate sweetheart to frolic unfettered in the fields of nubility. “You only live once,” is a common mantra down here where in fact people live out second and third and even fourth lives.]]></description>
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		<title>Boom time greed and condo ghost towns in Playas del Coco</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/boom-time-greed-and-condo-ghost-towns-in-playas-del-coco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/boom-time-greed-and-condo-ghost-towns-in-playas-del-coco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playas del Coco]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Do you live here?” I asked.

“For better or worse,” he said, “I guess I do. Or I’m trying.”

He’d bought a pre-construction condo from Mapache and, four years later, it still wasn’t built.]]></description>
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