In Alajuela, there is a central market open six days a week, with foods of all kinds, but the Farmers’ Market is on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, and it’s terrific. Folks load up shopping carts of produce. There are about 550 colones in a dollar.

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This article appears in Apr 8-14, 2010.

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