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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>Writing &amp; yoga retreat on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoga first thing in the morning, writing practice and instruction to follow, and long tropical afternoons at the beach. Sounds good to me. Very, very good. Toronto-based writer, editor and teacher Allyson Latta is doing what I’ve been meaning to do for years: combining a writing retreat with gentle yoga and setting it in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author launches Costa Rica Trips iPhone app</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2011/07/author-launches-costa-rica-trips-iphone-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/?p=794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Update as of Sept 12, 2011: I just launched an update of the app, adding dozens of additional restaurants, clubs, and hotels, along with two brand-new Trip Ideas: &#8211;Explore Gay Costa Rica &#8211;Explore Medical Tourism (cut-rate facelifts and bargain bypasses). Those who already bought the app will get this (and any future updates) free; those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NBC investigates travel trickery in Costa Rica &amp; the Caribbean</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2011/02/nbc-investigates-travel-trickery-in-costa-rica-the-caribbean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edward Hasbrouck]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dirty work isn’t confined to rave reviews—it also includes panning the competition. A former restaurant owner would skewer his competitors, writing of places he’d never been: “Eat at this dive at your own risk. It was the skankiest, most disgusting place I’d ever been.”]]></description>
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		<title>‘Bachelor’ episode showcases  Costa Rica’s Arenal: Hot springs, volcanoes &amp; 6 hopeful bachelorettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you’re not partial to a pack of tearful women fighting over one alarmingly well-groomed man, you might want to tune in to tonight’s “The Bachelor” at 8 pm on ABC, if only to catch a glimpse of the lushly beautiful Arenal area of Costa Rica. The wildly popular reality shows filmed the episode [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treehouses just 6000 miles from Costa Rica</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/07/treehouses-just-6000-miles-from-costa-rica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted before about treehouses in Costa Rica, but my treehouse mania knows no borders. Here&#8217;s a new treehotel in Sweden, 40 miles south of the Arctic Circle, with six rooms in the trees. A nice alternative if it&#8217;s too hot in Costa Rica.]]></description>
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		<title>Quien is mas treehouse? Life in the Costa Rican trees</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/01/quien-is-mas-treehouse-life-in-the-trees-in-costa-rica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/?p=356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the old Saturday Night Live skit, ‘Quien es mas macho?’ The contestants included Jack Lord from Hawaii-5-0 and Ricardo Montalban, who consistently came out on top. Here we have a variation on that theme, with all the Costa Rican treehouses I’ve visited vying for the honor of being treehouser than thou. One thing I&#8217;ve [...]]]></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>
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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>Crash landing at Playas del Coco, Costa Rica</title>
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		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/crash-landing-at-playas-del-coco-costa-rica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re lounging poolside, sometime between dusk and moonrise. Rick has a 5-inch diameter telescope trained on Jupiter and its moons. You can see three of the moons clear as day.  The stars, brilliant on this clear night, are reflected in the dark water of the pool. Full-size copies of pre-Columbian statues loom in the dim light, and night-blooming flowers broadcast their scent.]]></description>
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		<title>Curubanda: History and future of a working farm turned ecotourism lodge</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/curubanda-history-and-future-of-a-working-farm-turned-ecotourism-lodge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/curubanda-history-and-future-of-a-working-farm-turned-ecotourism-lodge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curubanda Lodge is a small ecotourism lodge in the heart of a working farm—Finca Nueva Zealandia&#8211;in the Costa Rican highlands. Its four modest but comfortable guest rooms are within spitting distance of the farm’s dairy, chickens wind their way through the gardens, and on your way back to your room you might have to push [...]]]></description>
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