IL Magazine: Discover the World's Best Retirement Haven for 2023 + 15 more
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We’re no strangers to Mexican beach towns. We’ve been living on the Pacific Coast, in vivacious Puerto Vallarta, for the last six months. There we get to watch the sun set into the sapphire-blue Bay of Banderas. And if the timing is right, spy a humpback whale showing off its best Herculean dive. But we wanted to check out one of Mexico’s other popular beach towns...
Eddie had to sell Mexico to Anastasiya. She didn't know anything about it other than what she saw on TV and couldn't imagine what it would be like. But once she got there and took a look at the aquamarine waters in Tulum, she understood the appeal. They spent nearly a month in Tulum, but as the end of their time approached, prices were becoming unsustainable...
White-sand beaches, turquoise waters, a tropical climate, and the world’s second-largest barrier reef system offshore make this a physically beautiful region that offers every sort of water sport imaginable. Throw in the rich Maya culture found inland from the beach, and you have a region that offers something for practically everyone.
Sicilians are proud people; proud of their heritage, proud of their food, and proud of their island. But the one big difference that they want you to understand, is why Sicily is even more fabulous than the rest of Italy. And they are prepared to go to the ends of the earth to prove it.
To realize their dream of living overseas, Lynn O’Brien and Kiernan Bowles assumed, as many people do, that they’d have to choose between waiting until full retirement age at 65 or leaving their jobs early and sacrificing years of additional income. They never considered that there might be a third choice, an alternative...
David Lee, 56, and his wife Sherry, 55, started their roving retirement in 2018. But theirs isn’t the usual roving retirement story. They work four months to fund eight months of travel and adventure. “Every year in August, we get to ‘retire’ again and go live our dreams for eight months,” says David...
Bali, the Island of the Gods, is an Indonesian island sandwiched between Java and Lombok. There really isn’t a “wrong” time to visit the island; it just depends on what you’re after.
We are perched on a cliff high above the beach drinking a watermelon juice at Single Fin. It’s a prime place for sundowners or to spend the day gawking at the surfers’ skills below.