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	<title>Living Abroad in Costa Rica &#187; Rio San Juan</title>
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		<title>No-Army celebration marred by border conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, as Costa Ricans celebrated the 62nd year of being a country without an army, President Laura Chinchilla announced plans to send more police to a disputed stretch of the Costa Rica – Nicaragua border. Six weeks ago, Nicaraguan troops occupied an island in the delta of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers that most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Ruta del Agua: tourism initiative to promote Nicaragua’s southern waterways</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navigating the Rio San Juan in Southern Nicaragua today, you won’t see much traffic. There are the local fisherman, a few sportfishermen, and the small boats that ferry local residents from very isolated towns to marginally less isolated ones. But in centuries past, the river was a busy thoroughfare. Spanish conquistadors sailed upriver to Lake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A gay Border’s Café in the Nicaraguan jungle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We took a boat up the Rio San Juan to El Castillo, which is both an old Spanish fort and an appealing small town with many of its houses built out over the river. The first thing we saw when we disembarked was a sign that said “Borders Coffee” with an arrow pointing up a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tarpon fishing and caiman wrangling at Esquina del Lago</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During our week or so in Nicaragua we were based at Esquina del Lago, a river lodge with no hot water but plenty of rickety charm. Lodge owner Phillipe Tisseaux met us at immigration in San Carlos, then whisked us across the water. It was dark when we arrived at the lodge, and the life-sized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast boat to Nicaragua: Just us, the crew, and a dead man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Hay un problemita,” the boat captain says. There’s a little problem.

How little? I wonder.

“Hay un difunto,” he says in a low voice. “There’s a deceased person.”]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for the boat to Nicaragua</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/waiting-for-the-boat-to-nicaragua/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, we wait. A group of boat captains lounges at one end of the cement pier. One half-heartedly tries to get us to take his boat to Nicaragua instead of waiting for the public ferry. Someone asks David where he got his sunglasses. Ebay, David answers.  At the other end of the pier teenagers with drooping pants act out some sort of antic scenario that is supposed to distract us from noticing that they’re eyeing our bags. When they slouch by and disappear upriver we’re relieved but soon miss having them to look at.]]></description>
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