Casa Tarus is a colorful 3 bedroom vacation home built around a charming garden in an unbeatable Merida location… why stay at a hotel when you can have your own home for the same price?
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Organic food, cruise ships, smart investors and donated school supplies are all coming to Merida and the surrounding Yucatan Peninsula…
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Carnival begins this week on Wednesday and it’s party party party all weekend! Check out a few parades, eat, drink and dance on the street, listen to some live music and have fun!
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This spacious colonial vacation home blends old and new and comes up with an elegant and comfortable home away from home. Everything you need is here, from swimming pool to roof terrace, and all of Merida is just a few blocks away outside your door…
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Carnival and Superbowl Sunday are just around the corner, so if you are going to participate, now’s the time to start planning. There’s also a lot of live music this week…
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Yucatan’s former governor gets elected to a national post, they are teaching Maya in the public schools and we find a great quote from a 19th Century photographer who visited the Yucatan…
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Casa Claire is a vacation rental home that takes full advantage of the color and climate of the Yucatan and Mexico. Open air living at it’s best, with 20-foot tall ceilings, 2 air-conditioned bedrooms, color everywhere and a great location…
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The city continues to party with jazz, classical, pop, reggaeton and trova live music performances this week. The King and Queen of Carnaval will be crowned and the Yucatan Symphony begins its season…
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Read about local debutantes and the King & Queen of the Carnival. There’s more to all of them than meets the eye. Passport cards can take the place of passports, and the local fruit called mamey is going commercial.
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Valerie Pickle has given her delightful name to her even more delightful restaurant, The Pickled Onion. Here’s Valerie’s story about how she came to be here in the Yucatan and how she finds life in the small town of Santa Elena…
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There is so much going on here this week, we wouldn’t know where to start! Feast your eyes on the menu for this week as we celebrate Merida’s 466th Birthday!
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‘Tis the time in Mexico for even more celebration. It doesn’t stop on New Years Day around here, but just seems to keep going. This week has 3 Kings Day and then it’s back to school and work… til Carnivale!
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Merida’s long cultural relationship with Cuba makes it a cigar-lover’s paradise, but you have to know where to look to find the real thing…
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La vida tranquila is a wonderful thing, but once in awhile, we need to experience big city life. When Merida was filling up with holiday visitors, the Working Gringos traveled to Mexico City…
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In the news about the Yucatan this week, a bicycle tour from Chichen Itza to Izamal, Mexico’s remittance programs and holiday safety.
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