Have you thought about a swap to improve your Spanish? No I am not suggesting you throw your car keys in the middle of your Spanish neighbours lounge and exchange your Janet for a Maria. What I am suggesting is find some Spanish people on your urbanisation and arrange a language...
Sailing across Croatia’s eye-catching coastline is a wonderful experience. The country’s tourism industry has been flagged up because of Croatia’s cruising and yachting industries. With more than 1,180 islands and 3,000-mile long coastline, one can feel the grandeur of the...
If theres one word that personifies Land O Lakes, Florida, its community. Located in fast-growing Pasco County, Land O Lakes combines the friendliness and charm of small town living with the fun of Floridas sun-loving life and play style. Centrally located Land O Lakes is close to everything ...
The Guggenheim Museum Bilboa, in Spain, was built in 1997 by Frank Gehry, a Pritzker Prize winning Canadian/American Architect. Mr. Gehry is well known for his modern architecture, much of which seems to defy logic with its curves and bends. Unlike many architects, he completed construction of...
Do you need to free yourself from stress? Are your days filled with nerve-racking events that you wish the world would stop for just a moment?
Studies show that one way to relieve stress is communing with nature. You can take a slow walk and breathe fresh air. You can have a swim....
I am miffed. I am sitting in my casita (little house) in Guanajuato moaning and groaning about something over which I have no possible control. I feel like swooning to the bed and uttering vile curses, but, as my wife often reminds me, What good would that do?
I have written about this...
Laluna Hotel Morne Rouge in Grenada is a delight. We stayed I think in cottage number 3, but anyway it was huge!!
It had a very comfortable King sized bed, in a large bedroom which had a built in bench along one wall.
There was a CD/tape player, TV and VCR, and you can get tapes...
If you read guidebooks or travel articles about Mxico, you will read that Mexicans are wonderfully accommodating, friendly, warm, and generous to strangers. You will be given the impression these people are the Salt of the Earth and maybe even virtually Saints. You will be told things like,...
A friend of mine told me about a conversation she had with a person she knows in one of the Mexican Prime Living Locations on the west coast of Mexico. This area, one to which many Americans flock, had become too expensive for her to continue living there. When my friend asked her where she...
The only drawback to planning a summer vacation to Lake Tahoe is narrowing down your choices for fun and entertainment. Lake Tahoe is simply the name for an all encompassing mountain, lake, and gambling experience. South Lake Tahoe is actually a city on the California side of Lake Tahoe on the...
Since moving to Mexico, I have been struggling with something I never, in my wildest imaginings, thought would be an issue in living in Mexico. No, it was not the language, the culture, the food, the people, or all things Mexican. Dont get me wrong. I have had to adjust to Mexico. Everybody...
When theme parks, beaches, scuba diving, and whale watching have lost their charm after multiple vacations to Mexico, perhaps a visit to The Land of Frogs in Central Mexico is in order.
The City of Guanajuato, which is called The Crown Jewel of Mexicos colonial cities, was named The Land...