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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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		<category><![CDATA[beach]]></category>
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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>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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		<category><![CDATA[archeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guayabo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Mercedes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minor Keith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-Columbian]]></category>
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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>Flying from San José, Costa Rica, to the Nicoya Peninsula: SANSA vs. Nature Air</title>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs on small planes]]></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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Herradura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaco]]></category>
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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>March to protest sexual violence in Costa Rica</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2011/08/slutwalk-in-costa-rica-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Costa Rican Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The so-called “SlutWalk” (Marcha de las Putas in Spanish) is meant to call attention to the pernicious practice of blaming the victim if she is raped or assaulted. The first SlutWalk was held in Toronto in April 2011, after a Toronto policeman suggested that to remain safe, “women should avoid dressing like sluts.”]]></description>
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		<title>A reader asks: Can I live on $20K/year in Costa Rica?</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2011/08/a-reader-asks-can-i-live-on-20kyear-in-costa-rica/</link>
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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>Jet Blue to add NYC – Guanacaste route in November</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2011/07/jet-blue-to-add-nyc-%e2%80%93-guanacaste-route-in-november/</link>
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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>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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		<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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