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Just a few years ago, Patzcuaro was a town that few foreign expatriates had heard of, and much less considered as a place...

As of January 12th 2009, the United States government requires all non-US and Canadian passport-holders traveling to or via the USA using the “Visa Waiver” program to pre-apply for...

There are no official figures published showing the number of expatriates living in Patzcuaro, full-time or part-time, although when asked, most resident expats guess with a number ranging between...

Last Friday, December 12th, was Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe, one of Mexico’s most important religious events. In...

Settling-in to Patzcuaro and getting your bearings is easy. This small mountain town is laid out in a grid pattern, in tandem...

So, what is it like living in a colonial town in Mexico? It’s a question often asked by people who are doing online research about relocating here. ...

Argentine cartoonist Quino (Joaquín Lavado), creator of the Mafalda comic strip, is in Mexico this week. Mafalda, which Quino began drawing in 1964 and continued until 1973, was always...

The BBC’s weather service has launched a new version of its leading-edge technology weather maps on the Internet, which offer detailed imagery and forecasts for countries and regions around...

On September 8th 2008, the Bank of Mexico began to circulate a new series of the $200 Peso bank note. This latest issue follows-on from the re-design of...

Real Estate Development companies are now well established in Mexico. Their presence in the Mexican real estate market is giving life to realty projects which offer a safe,...

Street cabs in many capital cities around the world are painted in a standard color so as to make them easily recognizable and, at times, iconic; for example, the...

For a country where people read notoriously few books, and not too many newspapers, Mexico has a reasonably large number of news-stands and vendors - on just about every...