International Living Postcards– your daily escape

Monday, Dec. 4, 2006
Paris, France

What’s top on your Christmas list?

How about a home on the beach for $80,000? Roving Latin America Editor Lee Harrison has found one for you and presents it, tied with a red ribbon, on the cover of your International Living issue this month. Lee’s holiday offering comes from Recife, Brazil, known for its miles of white-sand coast and warm blue waters. Beachfront, near-beach, and beach-view apartments sell quickly in this town. Why not…when they come with price tags as low as $79,000 (this for a one-bedroom in an elegant building situated on Recife’s best stretch of sand).

Not to be outdone, Roving Euro Editor Steenie Harvey bears beachfront gifts this month, too…hers across the Atlantic in Crna Gora (that is, Montenegro), where she’s found for you small sea-view apartments on offer for as little as $45,000. This newly independent nation of fewer than 700,000 is wooing back the tourists who all but disappeared during the Balkan’s dark days of conflict. The British and the Irish, as well as the whole of Eastern Europe, are hot on this trail, and current bargain prices won’t last long. Steenie has details starting on page 9.

Not interested in finding property or profits beneath your Christmas tree? Contributing Editor Suzan Haskins bears a gift of an entirely different variety. Suzan’s offering is an invitation to a new life. Big promise…on which Suzan is uniquely qualified to deliver. Suzan has reinvented herself from Omaha to Quito…from San Miguel de Allende to Panama City…and she’s just getting started.

Do you have a favorite day dream, Suzan asks. A secret wish for something you’d like to do…somewhere you’d like to be? Put it aside no longer. This season, with Suzan’s help starting on page 16, consider what you’d do with yourself…if you could do anything…anywhere.

Suzan’s report this month on Reinventing Yourself Abroad is but Part I of a series of reports she and we have planned through 2007. Want to start over in Paradise? Starting this month and continuing through the New Year we’ll offer a steady stream of ideas and opportunities for just that.

See the December print issue of International Living for Suzan, Steenie, and Lee’s early Christmas gifts. (If you’re a subscriber, you can get immediate access here.)

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But that’s just the beginning. During December, you can get the next three monthly issues of IL for $12.25. Plus, you get a free copy of How to Retire on $19 a Day, with my compliments. This invaluable book shows you how to get a lot more…while paying a lot less. If you’re in search of a new life…in a new place…in Paradise…this book is your new best friend, with tips on how to broaden your horizons, reinvent yourself…reinvent your retirement…and save money overseas.

Plus, you get a free copy of How to Get the Best Deal Every Time You Travel. With this book, you’ll discover the secrets seasoned travelers use to find the best airfare.

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Kathleen Peddicord
Publisher, International Living

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