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		<title>Canadian crime writer to speak in Costa Rica</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2011/12/canadian-crime-writer-to-speak-in-costa-rica/</link>
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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>Returned ancient artifacts go on display in Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ceramic pots, stone sculptures, and figurines are among the artifacts of the Keith collection being returned to their place of origin. Costa Rica didn’t ask for these artifacts to be returned; the Brooklyn Museum was cleaning house, trying to trim from its collection pieces that were not “museum quality.” In fact most of the pieces [...]]]></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>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>Grueling Costa Rica bike race traces conquistador route</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the explorers of old, Urbina and his band of 34 fellow adventurers sweltered in the coastal heat and shivered through mountain downpours. They peddled up active volcanoes, skidded through mud, and shouldered their bikes to ford rushing rivers.]]></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>
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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>Sunday in Alajuela: jazz and wild art</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/06/sunday-in-alajuela-jazz-and-wild-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going to be in Alajuela (Costa Rica) this Sunday? At noon at Vista del Valle Plantation Inn there will be jazz and an auction of Michael Cranford&#8217;s paintings. Mike is the treehouse-building, RainForest Aid-producing dynamo from the Osa Peninsula. That same night at the Inn, there&#8217;s a presentation about the environmental crisis surrounding the Osa&#8217;s [...]]]></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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		<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>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>
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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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