Dec 25, 2006 | Festivals & Holidays
It’s 12:30am Christmas morning and I’m off to bed to listen to the POPOPOP and that bomb-whistling noise from there. Starting at 11:59pm, the fireworks reached frenzy status, and still going strong. Even my next door neighbor is in on the act. We can see...
Dec 24, 2006 | Festivals & Holidays
It’s 9:30pm, I have It’s A Wonderful Life on TV. But I can hardly hear it because the sound of fireworks exploding all around me is deafening. I have perhaps occasionally exaggerated on this blog, but I am not exaggerating now. I swear. This pounding has...
Dec 24, 2006 | Festivals & Holidays
Yesterday, when I went to Cemaco, the big home store here, all their Christmas decorations were 50-70% off… I saw this globe and had to have it. Only $2 and I’m ready for Christmas. You know, so just in case there is a Santa Claus, he won’t skip our...
Dec 24, 2006 | Expat, Festivals & Holidays
A year ago, when we first got the idea to run away to Costa Rica for a year, the Bortmans of P.A. had already spent months planning and packing in preparation for their year-long sabbatical in Costa Rica. That’s the oddest thing, right? Planning a move to a...
Dec 20, 2006 | Cultural Events, Entrepreneurs, Festivals & Holidays
Like small Catholic developing nations everywhere, Jesus is big in Costa Rica. So his birthday next week is cause for celebration and pageantry. Huge is too small a word. In fact, there are fireworks going off down in the valley as I write this. (Fireworks are legal...
Jun 9, 2006 | Amistad Institute, Cultural Events, Festivals & Holidays, Spanish
Since the day we arrived, we’ve heard about the Copa Mundial (imagine the red-headed announcer from Dave Letterman saying in his booming-est voice "The KO! PA! Muuuuuuuun-Deee-ALLLLLLL! That’s how it sounds on the radio.)The Copa Mundial is the World...
May 31, 2006 | Cultural Events, Festivals & Holidays
On our way home from The Road to Volcan Barva, we passed a festival in Barva San Pedro’s town square. Last night, when I wrote this, I identified this village as Barva. This morning, Mr. I-Know-Where-I-Am-And-You-Don’t informed me it is the village of San...
