Once again, the stadium Francisco A. Micheli demonstrated why it has been acknowledged by critics as the most frolic, upbeat and festive stadium in the country. Accommodating more than nine thousand baseball starved fanatics, the first game of the Dominican winter baseball season was a downright success.
Category: Sports
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Reminder: Dueños 2009, October 24th
The Dueños weekend event or the ‘Fiesta Dueños’ is happening next Saturday, the 24th of October. Although we don’t have the exact schedule of events – make sure to keep next Saturday free, with all the Dueños events taking place, there’ll be no time for anything else!
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Rumor Alert; Third Texas Holdem Poker Invitational tournament coming soon!
Casa de Campo Living has just heard that a Third Texas Holdem Invitational Tournament is being planned as we speak and may be happening as early as next month!
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Los Toros: A video message from the Madrina!
The opening game of the baseball season is tonight: Los Toros del Este ‘v’ Las Estrellas Orientales de San Pedro de Macoris.
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Memories of Casa de Campo: Walking Daisy Dandelion on the Teeth of the Dog
After six years of living in the “Colinas” of Altos de Chavon my family and I moved to a villa in the Cajuiles section of Casa de Campo just before Christmas, 1993. The garden of this wonderful villa was resplendent with mango trees and loud daily visits from the beautiful Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo. At the […]
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The Lincoln Lions beat the Saint Johns Tigers 5-1
On Thursday the 8th of October, the battle started. It was the Lincoln Lions against the Saint-John Tigers, the duel started at 5:00pm and lasted for around one hour and a half. The Lincoln Lions gave their all and ended up with five goals leaving the tigers with only one goal.
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Local resident Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster promotes the Walkabout foundation on Bloomberg
The Gonzalez-Bunster family have been popular Casa de Campo residents for many years, and have recently started their own Charity – The Walkabout Foundation.
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What is Reflexology? It’s much more than just a foot massage…
Reflexology is a technique of treating the entire body by massaging reflex points in the feet and occasionally the hands. Foot massage is an ancient technique – there are Egyptian tomb paintings depicting reflexology and it is documented in the Vedic texts of India which date back over 5000 years. Modern reflexology dates back to […]
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Adventures in the DR – Me, an equine professional and golf documentary star!?
As I have previously mentioned, I am English, or rather an English rose (which is English for beautiful, young English lady), and as such I am unaccustomed to the Dominican way of life.
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Casa de Campo American Express Co-Branded Platinum Card
Since 2002 Banco del Progreso and Casa de Campo have had a co-branding agreement to provide owners of villas and apartments an exclusive co-branded Casa de Campo Platinum (‘Platino’) American Express – the ONLY American Express Card to be co-branded with a destination / resort.
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The Dude Ranch, the Vaqueros and the horses
Ever since I was a child I’ve always wanted to learn to ride, but I never had the chance, and so I jumped at the chance when somebody offered to take me out one day. Since that first time I must confess to having become somewhat addicted to riding at the Casa de Campo Ranch […]