Archive for September 15th, 2008
Monday, September 15th, 2008
As a resident of Costa Rica for 10 years, I am often asked the reason why we moved to Costa Rica …. so here’s our Top 10 list for those of you contemplating your own adventure, living, working and or retiring in Costa Rica.
10), Climate, Climate, Climate. You can almost pick your preferred temperature in Costa Rica and we selected 72 degrees year round at our home in the Central Valley Mountains. But what about the Rainy/Green Season? Sure, we have about 2 hours of rain during our “winter” months each day, but most mornings are beautiful and sunny. We also happen to delight in that expected afternoon rain in green season for a few hours. In fact if you haven’t experienced the sound of rain falling on a tin roof, with a good book, frankly, you haven’t lived. (more…)
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Julio Pedro Rodriguez had fled Miami Florida after authorities focused on his real estate dealings and subsequent mortgages that resulted in a fraud that exceeds an estimated 11.5 million dollars. Cody L. Gear, a law degreed, certified fraud examiner and private investigator, who has offices in Costa Rica and Florida spotted Rodriguez in April 2007 in Pavas, a suburb of San Jose Costa Rica. “At the time, working in concert with the lead investigator, Frank Gramlich, of IDS, I was asked to confirm if Rodriguez was in Costa Rica”, said Gear. Armed with information that Rodriguez was operating an exotic car dealership in Costa Rica Gear began checking the car dealerships in San Jose. (more…)
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
BBC News has been following a team from Manchester University and Chester Zoo as they trek deep into Costa Rica’s rainforest to work on conservation programmes for critically endangered amphibians.
Here the biologists explain why they believe that safeguarding the future of amphibians is key.
Of course, rediscovering the golden toad was always going to be a remote possibility – it has been gone so long
But just to visit the place where they were last seen – the unique elfin forests of Monteverde where they used to appear like ghosts from nowhere at the first sign of rain, reproduce hurriedly in an explosion of colour, and then disappear as quickly as they had arrived – well, it is little short of a religious experience for a frog biologist. (more…)
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