This Week… starting March 30, 2009
A quick note to remind you about the Merida Month-At-A-Glance Calendar. This calendar will be continually updated by our staff… as soon as we know about an event, we’ll put it here. The monthly calendar is color-coded, so you can see what’s going on in a Merida minute [...]
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This week there is news on many fronts… from genetically modified corn to a new computer network system for IMSS, to the Whale Shark Festival. Read all about it here…
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Someone asked us once where they could find a recipe for salbutes. That caused us to reminisce about how much we have learned since we moved here, expecting burritos and finding much more…
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Visitor or resident, it’s a rare person who can ignore the plight of the street dogs in Mexico. Terry Godown shares her story about two dogs that stole into her yard and stole her heart…
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Dialing between a cell phone and a land line in Mexico gets confusing. Add in area codes and neighborhoods and country codes, and most of us are just stumped. Here’s the instructions you need to call from anywhere to anywhere in Mexico.
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This week marks the end of the Annual Festival of Trova, with some fabulous performances, a caminata and awards. Also, Christopher Collins Lee, a world class violinist who happens to make his second home in Merida, is back and performing with the Symphony.
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News this week includes good news about plastic bags and important news about Mexican/American relations. In the Yucatan, the dry season and grouper fishing season have both begun…
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Merida is a city of a million people… and hundreds of different neighborhoods. Where to live? Where to buy? We can’t possibly talk about all of them, but maybe this will help…
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This week finds Madrigal singers from Mountain View in the park, wonderful old films in the theatres, and dance, theatre and much more. We’re enjoying springtime in Merida!
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In the very heart of downtown Merida, you can rent this two-bedroom renovated colonial with a plunge pool, just steps away from restaurants, shopping and much more…
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This week, news on book exchanges and donations, radical Mayan women at the UN and other places, what’s happening at the Convention Center this week, bartering rules and a call for reducing electrical consumption.
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If you have always wanted to visit Oaxaca or find yourself craving chapulines (fried grasshoppers!), be sure to visit Santa Ana Park this week. Booths are set up to sell everything from food to pottery and there is a full schedule of dancing and music.
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It seems like everyone in the media is worried about the dangers of traveling to Mexico… not us! not anyone WE know! the Yucatan continues to be a safe and lovely place to live and visit, and we’re gearing up for Easter and Spring Break…
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These three economical furnished apartments are located in the heart of the historical district of Merida, for complete and easy access to all that Merida has to offer.
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Women’s Day is this week, and there are a lot of interesting films playing all over town. Also, the Merida 2009 Festival of Trova and art openings at the Museum of Popular Art and the Soho Galleries. Also, read about Yucatan Living’s new Merida Month-At-A-Glance Calendar!
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In the news this week, oil, hospitals, solar ovens, Wal-Mart of Mexico, tourism numbers up, indigenous education, an ecologically sound golf course, young love, volunteering, and our answer (yet again) to all that bad news in the media about violence in Mexico…
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Creative thinking and follow through have been the ingredients for a very successful program helping children stay in school in Progreso. Now two more women are copying this success in their own communities…
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