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Tag: Costa Rican traditions

Is there a pulpería in your life – or down your memory lane?

February 19, 2020 stanleyobando

Costa Rica’s pulperías are fading from the landscape, but all those that remain are worth fighting for.

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What are your grapes for 2020?

January 1, 2020 stanleyobando

What will you wish for this New Year’s Day?

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Boyero with his oxcart in Costa Rica

Day 30: Let’s startle the world with beauty

October 25, 2019 stanleyobando

The outrageously lovely oxcart – and this week’s roundup.

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Your brother’s my cousin’s ex-girlfriend’s son? A Costa Rican screenplay

April 9, 2018 stanleyobando

You know what is truly pura vida, to me, after 13 years? More than a beach or a rainforest porch, more even than a cafecito or a birra bien

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A room of our own: Costa Rican choteo and Virginia Woolf

May 10, 2017 stanleyobando

Originally published by The Tico Times, http://www.ticotimes.net. When I worked in English-language education and visited an advanced young-adult class in San José, I asked them

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Why a Costa Rican Holy Week is a treasure to be savored

April 13, 2017 stanleyobando

I’m pleased to be writing a new column for Nature Air’s magazine, Nature Landings: “Word on the Street.” The magazine is full of fascinating travel

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“Love in Translation”

My book’s for sale on Amazon. Love in Translation - an ode to Costa Rica

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