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Published: January 26th 2011
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I started the day by walking to the grocery store around 7:15 to buy a few groceries, taking advantage of one of two of their discount days. I hurried back home, put groceries away and then headed to the park to meet Barb to walk to the house of the Tica, Vickie, I met on Monday that invited me to go to see their nearby rancho/farm. After a brief conversation with my neighbor, Enrique, originally from Italy but more recently form California, about the most important sights to see in CR I walked as fast as I could since I was already a few minutes late to meet Barb. She was also a bit late so we immediately headed in the direction of Vickie's home.
You might remember that I expressed some fleeting thoughts as to whether this was a smart idea to go with these people whom I really didn't know at all other than the brief conversation we had two days prior. Barb also expressed slight concern but we ultimately decided to go ahead. And it's a very good thing we did. What lovely people they are. Falvio is a retired banker and Vickie is a retired pre-school
teacher. They enjoy meeting people from other countries and cultures and have Spanish students stay in their home from time to time. Before we left for their rancho they showed us their two talking & singing Loras/birds. And sure enough they did talk for us and sing. Of course they speak & sing in Spanish but I was able to understand when they were singing. Must have been the dialect they were using😉 We also walked up to their rooftop viewing room. What a fantastic view of Atenas and the surrounding hills and environs. I kick myself now for not taking any photos of that part. I did take a couple photos of their house before we left.
Their rancho is lovely. It's about 20 acres or so with over 100 mango trees. They grow and harvest then to send to the states. Falvio also pointed out many other fruit trees and bushes, of which many I had never heard of. In addition some medicinal plants including eucalyptus as well as herbs. You'll see a number of them in the photos I took. I also took a few photos of the site where they had Tico workers digging for
another source of water.
We found out that this couple not only has the house in Atenas, the farm nearby but also a house in Guanacaste. So they are doing well. Another photo I didn't take was one of them together. But we exchanged contact info and plan to stay in touch.
I almost forgot to mention about the Gringa Womens Meeting at Kay's. There must have been about 25 women there. They meet weekly on Wednesdays and also plan other events and fund raisers for local children. There were four of us Barbaras there today!!!!!
Ciao.....Barb
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Pine trees in CR? Who would have thunk it?