Mexicans celebrate Day of the Dead, Mayans celebrate Hanal Pixan and little kids just want to wear costumes and eat candy. We do it all here in the Yucatan…

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When Working Gringa got a cast on her left foot, we started pondering all the different things that Merida will deliver straight to our door…

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Malcolm and Jillian are some of the first of a new wave of younger expatriates, moving to the Yucatan for high adventure and lower costs of living…

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A modern Mexican beach princess, with a cell phone in one hand, a shopping bag in the other and soft white Caribbean sand between her painted toes…

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We were recently interviewed for the premier edition of a new expatriate magazine called Inside Mexico. We thought we would share the following email that we received from the managing editor, Margot Lee Shetterly…

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Our friend Madeline is the owner of a well-known hotel in Merida and a one-woman guidebook. When she says there’s a new restaurant in town and says "they" say it’s good, we listen…

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Another in our series of expatriate interviews, this time with Emily and Alfred who operate Macan Ché Bed and Breakfast in the “Yellow City” of Izamal…

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What can we say about Cancun that hasn’t been said a brazillion times already? Plenty…

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We promised to explain why you should not put paper in a Mexican toilet, and we’re not going to let you down…

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The following is the first of what we hope are many interviews with "re-pats": Mexicans who have lived in the United States or elsewhere, and have chosen to return home to the Yucatan…

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