Well at last everyone is saying ‘it smells like Christmas’! As I think I said last year I can’t relate to this as I’m looking for snow and jingle bells, but I can relate to the glorious long sunny afternoons and the promise of summer! The migratory birds have returned, the first of the coffee [...]

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Community minded veterinarian hosts free spay/neuter clinic in Chirripó region. Carla Crocker loves animals and for years she has rescued dogs off San Jose’s streets and given them food and shelter. Right now she has seven dogs at her place, and a rabbit! In order to save the many cats and dogs let loose in [...]

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Consiste en un recorrido en bicicleta cerca de la montaña más alta de Costa Rica, El Chirripó. Es una total aventura para el deportista que enfrentará un terreno difícil, donde la mayor satisfacción será convencerse de todo el potencial que tiene dentro de sí mismo. Sumado al privilegio de disfrutar de hermosos paisajes y riqueza [...]

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*Proyecto San Gerardo is very pleased to announce that Karol Fernandez is the first San Gerardo student to receive a scholarship through the new Proyecto San Gerardo Fund. Karol has been studying computer skills with Proyecto San Gerardo since January 2009 and English since September of the same year. She passed her high school diplomas [...]

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I’ve been here a year and a half now and I realize I’ve joined the local ranks of “small ventures with big hearts” – an irresistible state of being for those of us scratching a living in rural Costa Rica. In my case it went like this: last year we had this brilliant idea of [...]

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Here we are in May – so close to winter though you would never know it as we are experiencing beautiful sunny, dry days and clear, starry nights. Fledgling birds have been around a while and everything is bursting with the promise of the growing season soon upon us. To celebrate we acquired 3 new [...]

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New happenings in San Gerardo! In March El Bosque Cabinas changed management and has reopened with refreshingly appealing rooms, a restaurant and tranquil spots for relaxing. Jeffry Padilla, new proprietor, has brought his experience from working in the Talamanca hotel to provide a level of service as well as a menu travelers are sure to [...]

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It is with great sadness I am passing a note from Jenny Giddy to say that Ian Giddy, her husband and joint founder with Jenny of Cloudbridge Reserve near Mt Chirripó and San Gerardo de Rivas, passed away on Sunday June 14th after fighting cancer for some time. Everyone in San Gerardo knew Ian and [...]

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Sugar comes in 1lb packets – right? Not always. Here it comes in blocks of delicious caramel coloured dulce wrapped in cane leaves and tied with twine made from banana leaf. It’s commonly used to make agua dulce a warm comfort drink for the cold evenings, but it can be used the same as sugar [...]

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Part travelogue, part diary here begins a weekly submission to the San Gerardo Blog which is intended to be for interest only and by no means represents anyone else’s opinion but mine (the author) and is as likely full of inaccuracies as any personal observations. So don’t take it too seriously! The diary represents my [...]

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