This is the second post for today, Saturday, about the town separate from the healthcare tour.
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| San Ramon is higher in the mountains than Atenas, meaning it gets much colder and rains more. It rained this morning & in 50’s. |
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| San Ramon’s beautiful Catholic Church facing the Central Park, like every town in Costa Rica. |
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| They also have a boyero or oxcart driver monument like Atenas. I like our Atenas metal one better. This one is on church grounds. |
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| Like every town’s Central Park, you will find children playing, old people talking, teens texting, talking or smooching, and a generally happy, tranquil place. There is a band-shell for musical programs. |
San Ramon is quite a bit larger than Atenas with more businesses and traffic, something in-between Atenas and Alajuela. I do not like it as well as Atenas because of the weather (colder and wetter) and the more crowded conditions. They do have a University campus which is a plus and a couple of museums we don’t have, but I think I will stick with my more walkable small town. Both are very “Costa Rica” in nature with wonderfully friendly people. They have a few hundred expats living there where we have over a thousand in and around Atenas.
The other post today about healthcare tour has more photos of San Ramon and yesterday’s short post has photo of tour group in front of Mural on La Posada Hotel where I stayed.