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                    <title>Why we sold The Orchid Lodge and what's next...</title>
                    <description>After the Househunter39s episode aired last week we received literally hundreds of emails and comments asking why we sold and what we are doing now. I appreciate all of the compliments from those that watched the show and appreciated our updates and repairs to the property and thank those that said it would be a place that you would like to visit. You still can and even though I no longer own </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-321095.html</link>
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                    <title>The Orchid Lodge has sold</title>
                    <description>I just edited this sorry I was a couple of weeks behind. I will post tomorrow explaining to all why I have sold.Thank you all for your interest and kind words.Matt</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-272732.html</link>
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                    <title>There are no mops in Costa Rica</title>
                    <description>People often have a hard time understanding that there are basic items that one cannot obtain in Costa Rica. With all that is said about it's modernity there are countless things that people take for granted living in the US that are not even a part of daily life down here. I am not talking about HDTV or HighSpeed internet while neither of those are that easy to come by in CR I am talking abo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-199427.html</link>
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                    <title>Running at Full Capacity while having a New Baby</title>
                    <description>Our new son Yoni Zev was born 2 months ago and he is wonderful. There was a rough patch in there but now he is happy most of the time laughing and smiling for a fair bit of time that he is awake. That doesn't mean that he is an easy baby he does not like to be put down very often. He always wants to be held and we try to abide by his request While we were closed to recover from having Yoni ove</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-165309.html</link>
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                    <title>The Lights Go Back On  The Energy Crisis Ends</title>
                    <description>After living for 2 weeks with power outages lasting from 25 hours a day there was sufficient rain in near the dams to allow the hydroelectric plants to start producing again.The power outages are over It's amazing that even though it was only a couple of hours per day it impacts you life in so many waysThis week they were working on the lines up the mountain so not only is Costa Rica's power </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-165307.html</link>
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                    <title>Costa Rica's Energy Crisis  Living in Darkness</title>
                    <description>Costa Rica is in the midst of a dire energy shortage. Hydro electric plants are running dry thermal plants are breaking down and we are losing powerCosta Rican Paper has the story hereReuters News has the story hereThis story talks about how it is affecting hotels usWe have been dealing with rolling blackouts for two weeks and a massive blackout a couple of weeks ago that left us without pow</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-154765.html</link>
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                    <title>Baby Klein makes his appearance</title>
                    <description>Baby Klein makes his appearanceSorry this has taken so long to get online but its been a bit of a crazy couple of weeks.On Sunday April 8th Rachel gave birth to a beautiful baby boy at hospital CIMA. Everything was wonderful we were in the hospital over the festival days of the holiday of Passover where we dont drive or use electricity which made for an interesting 48 hours.Fortunately </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-151947.html</link>
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                    <title>Our Costa Rica Contacts  Everyone that made our move possible  This is Critical for anyone relocating here</title>
                    <description>Since coming to Costa Rica we have thankfully fallen into amazing contacts.This is not typical as most people have horror stories about one person or another.Thankfully for us everyone from our realtors to our lawyers contractors bankers and more have worked out perfectly. I figure it is good for them and anyone else that may be looking to relocate here to have a list of tried and true conta</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-140245.html</link>
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                    <title>A successful first month of business and a handful of happy tourists</title>
                    <description>Well we are almost finished with our first month and things have gone well. Obviously we would have loved to have been full the entire month but we did pretty well considering that we opened our doors less than 30 days ago. We have had 14 guests through the hotel and it seems that all have been thrilled with the results. I will get some of the thank you notes up as soon as I get permission to r</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-123681.html</link>
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                    <title>The Hotel's Pool is up and running  New Pics</title>
                    <description>Pics of the hotel can be found at the following site CLICK HERE FOR GALLERYHere are some pool pics Orchid Lodge's Website  httpwww.theorchidlodge.comClick here to read our blog  httpblog.theorchidlodge.com</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-119421.html</link>
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                    <title>The first Kosher Hotel in Costa Rica opens its doors for business thats right we finally made it and within hours of being on schedule</title>
                    <description>We celebrated the opening of our hotel last week. We had our first guests and everything went better than I could have ever imagined. Rachels food was spectacular although it is clear that shell need help in the kitchen which I can offer now and well hire someone to do so in the future. All of the rooms and bathrooms were completely finished and considering what many of the hotels look </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-114923.html</link>
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                    <title>He followed me home can I keep him</title>
                    <description>Today I was weatherstripping the new front doors of the hotel. I realized after a while that I was not working alone. I had attracted a teeny tiny friend standing on the sidewalk next to me watching my workI can only assume that he wanted to see if I was doing a good job Unfortunately for him now that the weatherstripping is up he's locked outsideI put him on a rock a bit farther from the do</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-113598.html</link>
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                    <title>The Inn is Ready House Hunters taping is over</title>
                    <description>Yesterday we had our final taping for the show House Hunters  Airing should be in a couple of months.The Inn came together so unbelievably over the past week that we even surprised ourselves All of the furniture is here all of the projects are done and we got all of our art up on the walls The bathrooms are spectacular and the bedding and window treatments really finished off the look of the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-111934.html</link>
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                    <title>Finishing up construction  Things are looking up House Hunters taping is only 2 days away</title>
                    <description>Well if youve been following my blog you have seen things were looking pretty dismal for a while. Construction was moving relatively slowly and the house looked like it would never be done Fortunately over the past week things have flown as we finished all of the bathrooms the kitchen and the new front doors including a beautiful slate ramp making luggage transport a breeze and thats j</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-110956.html</link>
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                    <title>Rachels Breakdown Losing another Kosher Restaurant and a Months Worth of Errands in 1 Day</title>
                    <description>Its been a long time since I made an entry. Last week my mother was in town it was her first time visiting Costa Rica. It was a nice visit but unfortunately she had to deal with our crazy daytoday of not having a moment of peace waking at 545 to jackhammers in the bathrooms and going to the hardware store 310 times a day I think she enjoyed the trip its just that she missed out on t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-108672.html</link>
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                    <title>Construction Woes Actually just an update and some construction pics</title>
                    <description>We have been in construction for a month and things are going well. Although that may be difficult to tell from the photosWe are almost finished with all the bathrooms since the tile is going up which means we will be done within the weekThe kitchen even started yesterday see pics of the guys using the grinder below.It looks like we may eve start the pool next week Hopefully this keeps mov</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-105366.html</link>
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                    <title>Starbucks and Local Coffee Farmers </title>
                    <description>We started our Sunday by going up to the Poas Volcano and hiking around since we couldnt see the crater due to dense fog that had rolled in we hiked their trails. The hike was amazing the paths take you through these amazing habitats where you feel like you are walking through fairy tale woods.After we left Poas we went to meet one of our contractors who wanted to take us on a tour of a loca</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-102483.html</link>
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                    <title>A story of baked goods and kosher crises in Costa Rica</title>
                    <description>Opening a kosher hotel in a Costa Rica a country where kosher food is not common has proved to be far more challenging than we could have ever imagined. It is not the luxury items that we miss we can get some types of kosher cheese and all of the ingredients Rachel likes to use to make her favorite blueberry muffins a staple at any good bed and breakfast. We can even get our Morningstar Farms</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-101474.html</link>
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                    <title>Gus's Bed</title>
                    <description>I am unsure if I have discussed Gus very much throughout the blog but I will take a minute to talk about him now. Gus is our dog hes a Tibetan Mastiff and has more personality than many people we know. He is just one of the greatest animals we have come across in our lives and adds so much to our lives. When Rachel and her mother first arrived my mother in law wanted Gus to stay in her room</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-100397.html</link>
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                    <title>A visit from my mother in law</title>
                    <description>Rachel and her mother made it down on the 23rd and for the next week there were three of us living in the house that will be the hotel as soon as we can get my renters out of our houseIn many ways Costa Rica was not a surprise to my mother in law she has been to Caribbean islands in the past and while not an island Costa Rica has much the same feel as one. Things went relatively smoothly from</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-100393.html</link>
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