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A walk around Escazu - 2011

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Took some pictures as we walked around the neighbourhood one day. Thought you might like to see what the not so touristy part of Costa Rica looks like. This is Escazu, one of the better areas of San Jose. Check out the BLOG!

Road just outside the house, it’s part way up the mountain so the first part of the walk is easy, down hill all the way.

The Snoopy restaurant, on of the local landmarks we used to orient ourselves.

Cruz Rojo or Red Cross….another local landmark that helped us navigate the neighbourhood.

Getting into a better part of the area

Even though it’s in a better area, there’s still razor wire on top of the Kid’s University.

Nice property that you could actually see thru the gates. This is more the exception than the rule, most of the big places have solid walls and gates for security.

The local vet

Don’t see horse trailers like this at home

Another nice neighbourhood, we could tell by the sidewalks. Only the better ones have sidewalks, this one even had them on both sides of the road.

Coming up on a nice property

…it’s the German Embassy

A wider view of the German Embassy’s property, small guard house just behind the gate house for added security.

Plaza Paco, just about at our destination

This is it, the Fischel drugstore where we paid Mike’s utility bill. Odd place to pay bills but that’s how it works here. Took about 35 minutes to walk here from the house.

A short walk from the Fischel is the USA Embassy

Just a little more security here than at the German Embassy You can’t just drive over those posts, they gotta let you in. Everything around it is solid so you can see in at all!

Sidewalk in front of some nice condo’s just down from the US embassy

Condo’s everywhere

Condos opposite the Costa Rica Country Club….all the greenery really catches your eye.

Couldn’t see much of what was inside except the golf course…probably tennis courts too!

On the way to the restaurant for lunch

Laly’s….this is where we had lunch. Wouldn’t go in there in a million years based on it’s curb appeal but we’d been there before with Mike and Andee and it’s good, cheap, local food.

Local square

One of the not so nice streets and houses

Walking back up the mountain. This is the road we “live” on. All the pics from now on are places we pass between here and “our place”.

On the left is the brand new and I’m sure very expensive Mormon Church, notice the sidewalk in front of it vs. on the right where the local house are, no sidewalk there.

Country day school soccer field

The country day school is just down from us, it’s a private school.

It’s all fenced in and has guards monitoring it at all times

Local supermarket, a few blocks from the house. Good spot to get bread and eggs.

Lots of places like this with solid walls and gates, based on their security, we can olnly assume these are really nice places.

Typical small houses with only chain link fence for security.

Still making our way back up to the house.

No sidewalks here and barely enough room for 2 cars on the road, pedestrians have to be careful!

This street is a real mix of houses, at one extreme little shacks like this…they’re the only ones without fences around their property.

Not much to take here….Part of their roof is missing :-(

And then just a short walk up from those shacks is a fancy condo on the left and compound we’re in on the right.

This is the gate into the property.

The house we’re looking after is the one at the far end.

This is the house, we’re back home.

A blue bird in the back yard, not sure what the trees with the orange flowers are but they were beautiful.

This is our trek back from the farmers market on Saturday…notice the man walking his cow up ahead.

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