Tag Archive for 'Costa Rica'

Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk

You might have heard about the Worldwide Photowalk that is being organized by Scott Kelby and Photoshop User. I was amazed to see Costa Rica added to the list: http://www.photoshopuser.com/photowalk/city/san-jose-costa-rica.html But I had to move quickly because we had to organize everything and the leader is out of the country so we had to change the leader [...]

Building the set for the show

My older sister is part of a Costa Rican folklore dance group which gets together almost every weekend to practice their dances. Today they were preparing for their next show which will be in September and got together at the house of one of the members so that they can get their costumes ready and [...]

Sanatorio Carlos Duran

This past Sunday we took a road trip to the Irazu Volcano and in the way back we visited the abandoned hospital named after the Dr. Carlos Duran where people diagnosed with turberculosis would be taken to be treated. A view of the hospital before arriving The back of the hospital Continue reading ‘Sanatorio Carlos Duran’

Volcan Irazu…the road trip

This is a pretty long post that will contain several images so you’ll have to click the read more link at the bottom to view the rest of the images…this is because I don’t want to annoy our friends over at the NYLUG group who pull our RSS feed for their NYLUG Planet page [...]

Objective #8 completed

The begining of this week, well actually the past sunday, my parents and I took a quick road trip around the Zurqui Tunnel and I took a couple of photos. I was finally able to upload the last batch of photos that I took. Here are my favorites: This one was taken while the car was [...]

Arepas Costarricenses

For years I have loved the “Arepas” that my mom has made, the same recipe that was used by her grandma when she was a child, but the Costarican “Arepa” appears to be forgotten even by it’s own people and a search on the Internet for this recipe returns pages after pages of “Arepas” from [...]