Glynna Prentice

Glynna Prentice

Glynna Prentice, IL's Mexico editor, has always loved travel and life abroad. After touring the U.S. as a child, she took on Europe during college and returned to work as a field archaeologist in England, digging up Vikings, before graduate school. She later worked in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in Madrid, Spain. After a decade back in New York, she got the travel itch again. For the last 12 years she’s been based in Mexico, most recently in Guanajuato, in the Colonial Highlands. From there, she has covered destinations throughout Latin America and Europe for International Living. Today she divides her time between Mexico and Spain. Glynna holds an AB from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, an MS in journalism from Columbia University in New York, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Google+

A Home for $72,000 in a Charming, Lesser-Known Mexican Town

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Some time ago, driving to Cancún from the Gulf of Mexico, I stayed overnight in Valladolid. This charming Mexican town is almost exactly midway between Mérida, on the Gulf side of the Yucatán Peninsula, and Cancún. Tranquil Valladolid always reminds me of what the Yucatán must have been like decades ago...