Mexico Living & Leisure

People who come to Mexico for leisure or business visits lasting less than 180 days, and who are passport holders of one of the many countries which don’t require a visa to enter Mexico, complete a tourist permit form at the port of entry, known as a Forma Migratoria Multiple, or FMM.  Crews on international [...]

By Ronald Buchannan Back in the 19th century, London was known as “the great wen”, a huge pus-laden boil on the face of the fair English nation. Nowadays some people—including many foreigners and Mexicans who live in the provinces—see Mexico City the same way. Through the prism of their jaundiced eyes, they see 20 million [...]

According to data published by the US Department for Transport, 61,180,268 personal vehicles crossed the southern border in 2011.  This snapshot statistic provides an insight to the sheer size and scope of road travel that takes place across the US-Mexico border each year. Some people cross the border by road into Mexico for short periods—to [...]

By Ed Kunze The majority of Mexico does not have a city-maintained pressurized water system from the street like we are used to north of the border. Up north, all you have to do is turn the handle and you will get an even and constant water pressure throughout your home, including on the second [...]

For decades, yellow-colored VW Beetle Bugs were an icon of Mexico City’s street landscape.  In the 1990’s, as part of an ‘ecology’ drive, the capital’s government ordered cabbies to have their vehicle engines altered so that they would run on unleaded gasoline, and to repaint them from yellow to green and white. Some years later, [...]

Mexico City’s latest leap into modernity is in the shape of  Line 4 of the Metrobus service. The new line, which went into service this past week, is different in a number of ways from the first three lines. The buses are only two-thirds as long as the articulated ones that run on lines one, two [...]

Mexicans have three words for earthquake. Temblor – literally “tremor”- is the most commonly used, and is applied to most of the small and medium sized quakes that rattle parts of the country from time to time. Terremoto is reserved for the big earthquakes, like the one that struck this past week on the border between Guerrero and [...]

Here is something to consider the next time you are booking a plane ticket between Mexico and the UK. Today’s British fiscal budget increased the “Air Passenger Duty” (APD) on flights between London and Mexico by around US$10, from £75 (US$120) to £81 (US$130)—per person.  This is for economy class; if you travel premium economy, [...]

Nearly ten months ago, Mexican legislators signed into law a new Immigration Bill that promises to transform the country’s entire immigration policy—changes which are far-reaching and represent one of the most profound shake-ups of immigration policy in the country’s history. However, since its passage into the law books, the Bill has still not been ‘adopted [...]

Mexico has one of the most diverse nature and eco systems in the world. Although most people travel to Mexico to enjoy its wonderful beaches and atmospheric colonial cities, the natural environment here also presents plenty of opportunities to enjoy the best that nature’s great outdoors has to offer. If you are in search of [...]