[ad_1] The Holiday Inn Express London-Stratford is a 153-room moderately priced hotel in the town of Stratford east of London proper. Normally, for a trip to London, I’d want to stay somewhere close to the city center. But my recent two-night trip to the area was centered on attending an ABBA Voyage show. This technologically…
[ad_1] Visiting Sicily by car is a good decision, but not one to be taken lightly. I am a huge advocate for self-drive vacations and after spending 10 days on this unusually beautiful island I am convinced that a road trip through Sicily is the best way to explore the island. Driving in Sicily However,…
[ad_1] During Covid times, we got a break from people bragging about their location independent lifestyle constantly on social media. Many who were full-on nomadic have had to stop moving and pick a semi-permanent base. Still, they had options if the weren’t tied to a physical job. When I did an article on bloggers stuck…
[ad_1] Whenever you are not traveling, you should be doing two things related to travel: banking points and miles for the future and updating your travel gear while it’s a buyer’s market. After all, if the luggage and outdoor apparel in your closet is six, eight, or ten years old, it’s ancient. You can…
[ad_1] 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, $110K invested including renovations Over the years as I’ve written about moving abroad, readers have often told me they worry about buying into global real estate markets. Some see it as more risky than buying property where they live now. There are some valid fears behind that, which I’ll go…
[ad_1] I first wrote about craft beer in Mexico back in 2014 after attending a local beer festival in Guanajuato. I tasted a few wonderfully aromatic pale ales, German-style Heifweizens, a Belgian-style whit beer, a couple red ales, and one of the best stouts I’d had in years. All made within a few hours’ drive…
[ad_1] What’s the process to get a Mexican residency visa and how much will it cost you? Well, as with nearly any answer related to immigration, “it’s complicated.” If you go look up what you have to do and what it will cost you to become a legal resident of Mexico, you will find the…
[ad_1] The woes of the world’s fresh water supply are proving increasingly problematic. Aquifers around the world are starting to dry up. Due to rising temperatures, snowpack is failing to provide enough sustainable surface supply. Municipal water sources in some cities have moved beyond questionable to full-on toxic. Because we all depend on H20 to live, learning how…
[ad_1] On a sprawling piece of property along the coastal highway of Baja California Sur sits the Hacienda Encantada and the Vista Encantada hotels, both run by the Mexico Hotel Group, a family-owned hotel group that started in the 1990s with their signature property Marina Fiesta in downtown Los Cabos. Vista Encantada is the group’s…
[ad_1] A permaculture garden differs from other modern farming techniques because its focus is on more than merely growing food. Permaculture practitioners seek to find balances between the give and take of nature– animals included– and the needs of humanity. From sustainable homes and renewable energy sources to food forests, the permaculture movement is about much more than gardening….
