The   Bella  Blog

Unfortunately, we don't have much in the way of LIVE entertainment here in Grecia. For the last 3 years we have followed our expat...

Several months ago I took a road trip with my friend Jeanetta and Linda (a visitor from the US). We drove up to Zarcero and onward to La...

Once we started talking to other people in the area and we realized that NOTHING was going to be done about what happened to us, I got a...

It has taken me a while to write this post because I wasn't really sure about what approach to take. Before we moved here I did years of...

In previous posts I talked about furniture shopping in Sarchi, which is the center of quality handcrafted Costa Rican furniture. We...

Before we moved to Costa Rica, we began preparing to learn Spanish. Although, you can get by here (at least in most of the bigger cities)...

I want to point out again that you can be as busy as you want to be, or not (for all of you worriers). It's all up to you. If you can't...