Yucatan Living
Expatriates living, working & playing in Merida and the Yucatan
Interviews & Editorials
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Malcolm & Jillian
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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Emily and Alfred
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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Belina Garcia
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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Mexican Cities/American Cities
We have been playing this game of comparing places in the U.S. with places in Mexico. Here's our first take on a list of Mexican cities as compared to American cities. Join us and play along...
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Renaissance Modern: Salvador Baeza
Salvado lives and paints here in Merida where he shares his home with his actress/dancer wife and their daughter. As he puts it, he 'steals' space from them to have his art studio...
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Poetry at Acqua
On the paper placemats (sponsored by Coca Cola) at the Acqua Restaurant, is a fragment of a poem by Jorge Luis Borges. It's in Spanish, but it's easy to get the drift...
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Eben and Tanja
This entrepreneurial couple hails from London, England and has come to Yucatan to develop real estate and raise their children in a peaceful environment...
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Jason Buff
At the tender age of 27, having moved from city to city since graduation from college, Jason decided once again to quit another job in North Carolina and head to Mexico...
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Obrador Speech in Merida
Here is a brief clip of presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) giving a speech in the park located at the southern end of the Paseo de Montejo...
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El Maloso
Not your typical interview with not your typical expatriate...
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Ellyne Basto
Ellyne and her Yucateco husband have come home to Merida to operate their bed and breakfast, Cascadas de Merida...
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Surreal Mexican News
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. This must be especially true if you're the president of Mexico...
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Trudy Woodcock
Trudy is an expatriate from Canada who has found a way to marry her love of all things Mayan with a new career path...
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Montezuma's Revenge
Many people who travel to the Yucatan or contemplate living here worry about the water. Almost every guide book and travel web site, and even the U.S. State Department, caution not to drink the water in Mexico or risk being yet another victim of the dreaded "Montezuma's Revenge"...
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Beauty School
You may remember Soco, whose quinceaños we attended awhile back in her home town of Oxtapakab. Now she's off to beauty school...
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Madeline Parmet
This is not an interview with Madeline. No it's not. But thanks to her humble servant Violene, we gain some insight into the owner of Luz en Yucatan...
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Los Tres Caballeros a Chichen Itza
We think somehow it is our duty to mention that today the three most powerful men in North America visited Yucatan's most important tourist attraction: the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza...
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Medical Care Merida Style
In the past two days, the Working Gringos have had two medical experiences; one of them was comfortingly similar to experiences we have had in the States, and the other was a bit different...
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Keith Heitke
Anyone who has met Keith knows he is one of the sweetest people around. Here's an interview with a leading real estate agent in Merida...
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Topes
Anyone who has traveled by car in Yucatan - or anywhere else in Mexico for that matter - quickly discovers the tope...
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Mexico Sweet Mexico
Not long after we moved here, it occurred to us that Mexicans and Mayans have a collective sweet tooth...
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To the Beach!
Yesterday, as the world was reading about Merida and the cheap real estate here, some of us lucky residents decided to get out of Dodge for the day...
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Another Honest Mexican
While it is fresh in mind, today another honest Mexican was encountered, this time in Cancun..
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Working Day in Cozumel
The Working Gringos were working in Cozumel today. Yes, we really were. This week, we are researching Cancun, Cozumel, Playa del Carmen, Tulum to update a travel guide for this area...
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La Policia
Here in the center of Merida, we see four different types of policemen. Now we know what they're called. Sort of...
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Merida Carnival Video 2006
This is a "highlights" reel from the final Carnival parade in Merida on Fat Tuesday, called the "War of the Flowers", where people toss flowers at each other...
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Carnival Week Sunday
So here we are again, sitting in our nice air-conditioned renovated colonial office in Merida, thinking we *should* get out there and see Carnaval...
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Chris Brown
We met Chris on the Internet and discovered he has a passion for following his heart...
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You Don't See This Every Day
Our first reaction to this was, wow! Its art! This would not be out of place in a SoHo gallery...
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Sueters
No, it's not misspelled. The Spanish word around here for sweater is sueter, believe it or not...
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Arielle Newman
Arielle, an expatriate living in Playa del Carmen, is a one-stop shop for what ails you. Yoga anyone?..
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Ruminations of a Vecino
We just found out about a fellow expatriate who is writing a blog about living in Mexico, Ruminations of an Expatriate...
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Marcos Unmasked
To break the ice at a rally in Merida's zocalo, Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos did something he has never before done in public. He took off his mask...
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Goodbye to Marcos
We promised a report on Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos' farewell speech in Merida last Friday night...
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Marcos in Chichen Itza
Friday was Subcomandante Marcos' last day and night in Merida, and he covered a lot of ground...
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The Other Campaign on the Mayan Riviera
Conditions for the Mexican workers in Cancun and around the Mayan Riviera are not always as good as would be expected. The Other Campaign arrived recently to hear their stories...
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Yucatan Mailman
We'd always heard that the mail in Mexico doesn't work that well. And it does take longer for things to get where they are supposed to go when you use it. But we like the idea of supporting our local mailman...
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Street and Parking Lot Guys
Here's something that you just don't get in the States: a man to watch your street...
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Mel Gibson in Yucatan
This morning, Australian movie star Mel Gibson is on the front page of our local Merida newspaper...
