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  1. Santo Domingo: A Lovely City

    Blog: Fourteen months, four countries, and three kids - Tales from the Field - 18 December 2009

    Santo Domingo is a lovely city. It runs along the Caribbean Sea, and has two large parks with views of the Sea. The Colonial City is replete with Old World charm – ancient stone buildings, a bubbling pedestrian walkway, huge stone plazas, churches, and all sorts of interesting sights. All over the city, you can find cafés, pastry shops, and places to hang out.

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  2. A lovely day at the beach in Boca Chica

    Blog: Fourteen months, four countries, and three kids - Tales from the Field - 8 December 2009

    After nearly three weeks in the Dominican Republic, we finally made it to the beach! The beach at Boca Chica is just a 45 minute bus ride from Duarte, in central Santo Domingo. Once we were ready to go, we hailed a cab in front of our house that took us to the bus station. The cab driver offered to take us all the way to Boca Chica for 1,000 pesos (US$28), but we declined the offer. Instead, we boarded an air-conditioned gua-gua (bus) that charges 60 pesos (US$2) a person, and had a nice, cool, fast ride to Boca Chica.

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  3. All is well that ends well – finding an apartment in Santo Domingo

    Blog: Fourteen months, four countries, and three kids - Tales from the Field - 26 November 2009

    We finally have moved into our apartment in Santo Domingo. It is an amazing apartment, much nicer and bigger than we actually need. I can’t believe how lucky we were with finding this apartment.

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  4. Premières impressions à Santo Domingo

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 14 October 2009

    By Thomas Gold, KF9 Dominican Republic For English version, click on “read the rest of this entry”, then scroll down. « La République Dominicaine est un pays aux couleurs vives, musiques et danses irrésistiblement entraînantes et climat tropical».Voici la seule image que j’étais capable de me figurer, en attendant mon avion à l’aéroport de San Francisco, du [...]

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  5. Questions Regarding The Dominican Republic…

    Blog: Have Baby Will Travel - 22 October 2008

    Recently Melodie sent me an email regarding the Dominican Republic… Hello! I just recently saw your website and I would like to say how great it is that you have established this! We have a 3 yr old and a 7 month old and this site has a lot of useful tips and info!   We are planning [...]

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  6. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

    Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 20 February 2008

    Long, cold winters in Boston make you dream about a place like Punta Cana. Needless to say it felt pretty amazing to disembark into the 80-degree Caribbean air. From the airport, we found the "shuttle" to our hotel-- a beat-up minivan circa 1985. While we had understood that transportation was included in our Orbitz package, we lacked the vouchers requested by our driver and ended up paying $40 to get to our hotel. So if you do book a trip to Punta Cana, it is important you work out these details ahead of time.

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