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2 months ago | 
catsuka.com | Steven Lejeune |Benoît Gautier |Don Mateo
Après la saison 1, c'est au tour de la saison 2 de "Wakfu" de se voir proposée gratuitement et intégralement sur Youtube par Ankama Animations. Cela se passe ici, et comme la dernière fois, je rappelle que l'intégralité des épisodes sont proposés partout dans le monde (avec plusieurs langues en sous-titres), sauf en France, puisque les droits de diffusion sont chez France Télévisions (qui propose en outre et déjà la série gratuitement depuis longtemps).
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
ticotimes.net | Don Mateo
Last weekend I took a Costa Rican road trip: Perez Zeledon to Dominical, Dominical to Quepos, Quepos to La Palma de Puerto Jimenez and back. The total drive time for the initial trip was four and a half hours. The most difficult stretch now is the first 35 kilometers, starting in Perez Zeledon, which takes you over El Alto, a mountain that peaks at about 1,100 meters (3,700 feet), then plummets down to sea level over the next steep and winding 16 kilometers (10 miles).
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
ticotimes.net | Don Mateo
When I first made the move from the northern US to the tropics, it took my immune system a while to adjust.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
ticotimes.net | Don Mateo
For the third time in my thirty plus years in Costa Rica, I was a victim of property theft. It happened two days before the new year. Two items were stolen– a four burner Atlas gas plantilla and the half empty tank of gas attached. These were kept outside, on a table in a covered open-air patio. The thief or thieves were stealthy, because I slept inside the house, about twenty feet away, but heard nothing.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
ticotimes.net | Don Mateo
One of the classic New Year’s songs for our part of the world is called ‘El Año Viejo’. If you have your radio tuned to any local stations during the holidays, there is a good possibility that you will hear it. The best-known version was done in the 1950s by the Mexican singer Tony Camargo. Backed by an insistent beat, a brass band, background singers, and the sound of fireworks, the song celebrates the new year in true campesino style.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
ticotimes.net | Don Mateo
The Municipal Council of Quepos recently got a jump on the rest of Costa Rica with their unanimous decision to officially ban the use of noise-producing fireworks during the end of year festivities. There is currently a proposed law pending to make this a permanent ban on the national level, but it has yet to be made legally official.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
ticotimes.net | Don Mateo
I am currently building a collection of reusable shopping bags, courtesy of my local supermarket. The bags are said to have a shelf life of about 200 uses, but I wouldn’t know, because every time I go to the store, I forget to bring one of the dozens I have stored in the cabinet below my sink, and have to pay 100 colones each for new bags to add to my growing hoard. But it’s a start. One small step against the flowing tide of plastic, plastic everywhere. It’s even the law now.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
ticotimes.net | Don Mateo
Facebook has numerous pages catering to the foreign community in Costa Rica. There are always a number of posts from people thinking about moving to or visiting Costa Rica, and their “what’s it like?” questions. Responses vary. One recent post caught my eye when a responder—almost certainly an estadounidense—described Costa Rica as a country of “extreme socialism.”Terms like socialist and communist get thrown around a lot.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
ticotimes.net | Don Mateo
Feliz Navidad! Is it too early to say that? Nah– It is now officially Christmas season. Unofficially, it started sometime in October. I saw Christmas decorations in stores and the occasional house festooned with lights sometime before the first of November. The park in town got its lights strung this past weekend, and the Festival de Luces is only about a week away. The Tropical Christmas is unique. We sing Jingle Bells and Silent Night while sweating in the heat.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
ticotimes.net | Don Mateo
Beans, beans, the magical fruit…remember that little ditty? The more you eat the more you toot, the more you toot the better you feel, so let’s have beans for every meal! Besides the fact that beans are a legume, not a fruit, and “toot” is a weird euphemism (and for those of us who were partying in the 1980s, that word has a whole other meaning), I am otherwise in agreement with the message. After over three decades in Costa Rica, I have become a bean addict.
