I try hard to take photographs of scenes I find amusing on the streets of San Jose each week....

It's not always easy taking photographs from the car but yesterday while driving home from the bank I stopped at the traffic lights beside the van of a professional cleaning company called 'Beauty Clean'...

This 'Beauty Clean' company cleans many of the normal items that one would expect including carpets, furniture, car interiors and venetian blinds and they also offer professional cleaning services for:

Now most of you will probably know that limpieza is cleaning, aviones are planes and yates are yachts however, maybe it's one of those little 'cultural differences' we see from time to time but, I don't normally associate the cleaning of stuffed animals (peluches) like Teddy Bears with planes and yachts, do you?

Written by Scott Oliver, author of 1. Costa Rica Real Estate Scams & How To Avoid Them, 2. How To Buy Costa Rica Real Estate Without Losing Your Camisa, and 3. Costa Rica's Guide To Making Money Offshore.