From the Tico Times: The number of tourists who landed in January and February at the Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia, a short drive from popular beaches in Costa Rica's northern Pacific province of Guanacaste, was up more than 24 percent from the same span in 2009, according to the ...
The day before yesterday Jim Berry called and told me there were two adult whales and a baby just offshore from our Punta Penca. Then last night I saw this story about a baby whale tangled in a net out by the Catalina Islands (also nearby):
We are very pleased and proud to announce that Githa and Coo ten Hope Saarberg will be opening a magnificent equestrian center at Las Catalinas next year. The center will consist of boarding, training, dressage, jumping, children's clinics, and trail riding within the 1200 acres of Las Catalinas. ...
I believe it is a fact that no storm with hurricane force winds has ever hit Costa Rica. Basically the country is at too low a latitude for the coriolis effect to kick in and give storms the rotational punch they need to become hurricanes. Google comes up with three hurricanes that have come close ...
In yesterday's election Costa Rica elected its first woman president, Laura Chinchilla. She served as the Vice President in the current administration of Oscar Arias before resigning last year to campaign for the presidency.
Here in Atlanta: 37 degrees and a cold steady rain for the last two days...
The Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica - Las Catalinas is sort of on the northern edge of it - is one of four places in the world where researchers have found an unusually large number of people living to 100 or more, and with amazing vitality. Here is a really touching video about a 100 year old woman ...
Here is a nice article on Las Catalinas that appeared in the July/August edition of Tuxedo Road, an Atlanta based magazine.
Geoff Graham (friend, neighbor, and one of the founders of one of the finest new urban developments, I'on) accompanied me to Las Catalinas last week. He had lot's of great ideas, and followed up with this post on his Guild Quality blog:
Some more press appeared today on Las Catalinas, a nice article in the Tico Times, which is the leading English language newspaper in Costa Rica. From the article:
A very nice and fairly long article on Las Catalinas ran today in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. An excerpt from the story:
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