Awesome country. Infrastructure was well beyond what we expected but shouldn´t have been a surprise for a country that´s a tourist/retirement/tax haven for the US. It has no army and a greater number of teachers than police, so it has attracted a lot of peace-loving folk from its neighbours, including a fair number of US Quakers. Like Panama (who are running their Canal more efficiently and safely in the decade since they secured their property back from the Americans) they haven´t picked up too many bad habits from the Yanks and some very special national characteristics we saw through out the country included... oversized bed sheets that they never stayed on, undersized ´spray-on´clothes worn by women, young and old, presumably so that they never stayed on. And while the food was fantastic it was somewhat limited,
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