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We are celebrating Christmas in our new traditional fashion: by spending the holidays with the kosher Badgetts and not celebrating. It's now oh so de rigeur and oh so much more fun than the old way. The Bs have come every (#1) Christmas (#2) week (#3) since our first in Costa Rica. If Willow didn't arrive the middle of December, we'd . . . → Read More About I’m Having One and I Feel Like Sharing:

Mecánicos

When we asked the guy we bought our car from where he got it fixed, he bragged about his "shade tree" mecánico. He and his family were here on a year sabbatical from his university job where he taught – what else? – Spanish. Thank goodness Old Smokey didn't need any fixing for quite some time because our Spanish wasn't good enough for a "shade tree" anything. We couldn't even say "shade tree" in Spanish. We couldn't even say shade or tree without looking it up. We could count to ten… yeah, that was helpful.

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Question From A Reader:

Hello Saratica,

I found your interesting informative blog online. My name is Georgia and I lived in Costa Rica 2001-2006. Christmas 2005, I was robbed, so I moved to another country. After this economic crises, I am thinking of coming back. I have heard enough crime reports to tell me do not come back, but I have no choice.

How is Belen? I am considering buying a home in a gated community there. How is the traffic to Belen? I wish I could get your input.

Be well, be safe, and God bless, Georgia

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Hi Georgia,

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Brilliant!