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Beate and Paul Epp made the leap from Canada to Mexico in 2012. For 13 years they ran a hotel and organic farm, but having taken many vacations to Mexico. "Our home was quite lovely to begin, but we added three guest cottages in our large garden area.
Hi, this is Don Murray with International Living in Mexico. I wanted to answer a couple of the questions that we frequently get. First of all, is it safe to live in or around Cancún, including the area south of Cancún, that we call the Riviera Maya? Is it Safe to Live in Cancún? The Read more...: Is it Safe to Live in Cancun?
Having now lived outside the U.S. for nearly seven years, I am frequently asked by my friends back in the States if living outside the U.S. is safe. That prompts an internal chuckle that I find tough to stifle...
Roatán is the most beautiful island I have ever seen. And I've spent thousands of hours in the cockpit of airplanes over some stunning atolls and coral paradises around the globe...
Marion Seaman first visited Roatán with friends in the early ’80s, with no intention of making it her permanent home. She recalls that it wasn’t long before Roatán worked its magic on her. “A few months after I returned to the States, I walked away from everything, including the love of my life. I went to Roatán with only my suitcase, and a dream to spend my days wiggling my toes in the sand...
They moved with a fierce pride. The men wore thick leather loin cloths, their bodies painted in traditional Maya markings. Some bore elaborate headdresses. Most had large necklaces made from bones and stones and one wore a carved mask atop his head and sported huge, feathered wings on his arms...a bird man.
"Most days, I honestly can't believe that I am getting paid to go fishing in one of the most beautiful places on the planet," says former landscape architect, Randy Bowser. "I get paid to take people fishing almost every day. I spend my days on the beautiful, calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico...
For many, the dream of someday retiring to their own home on a tropical island is just that; a dream. But for former Canadians, Lawrie and Lynda Lock, others’ dreams are their affordable reality.
I’ve spent a considerable amount of my leisure time hanging around airports over the past 45 years. Not the large, commercial mazes of security checkpoints and baggage conveyors. No, the other kind. The small ones, outside the big cities...
Mexico’s Riviera Maya is a stunning expanse of perfect, sparkling white sand, bathed by the warm, turquoise-clear waters of the Caribbean Sea, dotted with swaying coconut palms, and soaked by the rays of a tropical sun...