Nicaragua and Costa Rica are starkly contrasting countries, as much for their respective landscapes as for their inhabitants, history and culture.
While Costa Rica is a well-developed paradise for sun-seekers, it is mostly bland in local colour. Nicaragua, meantime, offers a less developed tourist infrastructure but is teeming with native culture and unexplored adventure opportunities.
Despite its [...]
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On the road: part two
Posted in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, kids, travel, tagged Costa Rica, Granada, Hotel con Corozon, Nicaragua, wind turbines on March 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
To school or not to school
Posted in Costa Rica, family, kids on March 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We put our kids in a local school almost a month ago.
The almost six-year-old is in prepa, the equivalent of kindergarten, while the almost four-year-old is in preschool.
It’s their second time attending school since we came to Costa Rica last August. Their first was a private international school of some repute just outside the city of Heredia, where [...]
What makes poop and pee so funny?
Posted in family, kids, tagged kids, pee, poop, school on February 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Pooping, peeing, burping and farting.
These are my children’s latest obsessions. The sounds that escape both ends, sometimes self-generated, send my almost six and four year olds into fits of laughter. Even the words whispered into each other’s ears generates giggles which seem to grow exponentially with their repetition.
I don’t get it. Really, what is so [...]
The better half breaks his silence
Posted in Costa Rica, kids, travel on February 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
All right…
I have heard enough times in the past few weeks “I love reading the blog…but there hasn’t been anything for a while…” that it has given me some spark to sit down and rattle off some clever and insightful words.
This might be easier said than done, as the “I” in this edition isn’t the [...]
Back with a bang
Posted in Costa Rica, kids, tagged atenas, Costa Rica, earthquake on January 9, 2009 | 11 Comments »
We’re alive. In case anyone was wondering.
Between a month’s hiatus from the blog and a few inquiries following a major earthquake here in Costa Rica, it seemed prudent to finally write.
So much, and so little at the same time has happened so I’ll begin with the end.
Another earthquake.
This time, there was no mistaking the shaking [...]
Children are the best teachers
Posted in kids on August 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some days my children make me cry. Some days they make me laugh.
But most days they make me wonder how I ever lived without them.
These two little people have been dragged around for the last five days in a foreign country, looking at houses in areas far flung, being spoken to in Spanish and manhandled [...]
The more things change . . .
Posted in housing, kids on August 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It seems some things never change. As I sit and write my first post from Costa Rica, my two little kids sit in front of the TV watching cartoons, albeit in Spanish.
After nineteen hours on the road – between seven in the air, six spent at the Houston airport (where people are not very pleasant, I [...]
