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​Cabo San Lucas is filled with local, mom and pop corner grocery stores as well as having Supermarkets like Sorianna's, Chedraui, Mega and Wal-Mart.  Chedraui is used more by the locals and the others seem to have a good mix of locals and expats and tourists.  We also have a Costco here in Cabo San Lucas.

Fresh fish can be bought right off the docks at the marina.  The fish mongers clean and filet them up right as the boats come in.  For about $5.00 US, you...

​Cabo San Lucas is filled with local, mom and pop corner grocery stores as well as having Supermarkets like Sorianna's, Chedraui, Mega and Wal-Mart.  Chedraui is used more by the locals and the others seem to have a good mix of locals and expats and tourists.  We also have a Costco here in Cabo San Lucas.

Fresh fish can be bought right off the docks at the marina.  The fish mongers clean and filet them up right as the boats come in.  For about $5.00 US, you can take a pound or more of fresh tuna, mackerel or whatever the catch of the day is, home with you.

Meats are lower priced than in the US.  A good porterhouse steak can be bought for about $7 US a pound.  Chicken and pork are lesser priced.  The nice thing about Mexico is they don't use preservatives on their meats.  Eggs have wonderfully yellow yokes that make your breakfast omelet light up your plate!

There are many Mexican counterpart foods to what we have in the US.  If you buy the local brands of tuna, salad dressings, etc. you will definitely pay less than the foreign (US) brands.  And, not all stores carry foreign brands. However, we do have Santa Carmela Market, a boutique specialty store.  The owners will happily custom order grocery and deli items from the US.  My favorite item from them is molasses - a MUST for my home-made BBQ sauce!

You can buy a bottle of tequila for $3 US, a decent bottle of wine (Mexican, South American, etc) for about $3 US and loaf of fresh baked bread for about 50 cents.

The mom and pops feature less variety, but at very affordable local prices. These are the neighborhood stores that are found throughout each town and where people shop daily vs. stockpiling for weeks or months worth of food.  Most Mexicans buy fresh daily, mainly because the traditional Mexican kitchen usually has a smaller refrigerator, no oven/stove combination and not a lot of kitchen cabinets.

We also have a wonderful "Farm Fresh" service available that will deliver fresh produce from local area farms right to your door every week called Baja Farm Fresh.

Many people don't realize that a large percent of our groceries and commodities are shipped in, either via truck or ferry to Cabo San Lucas.  So, we do pay a somewhat higher price than the more rural communities that depend on locally available foods.  And we are lucky that our selection is very big, mainly due to the amount of residents, resorts and restaurants located here.

I'd say overall, from where I live in Colorado, there is about a 40% difference in food cost, with Mexico being lower.  I live in a very remote US town, where our goods are also trucked in through the mountain passes of the Rocky Mountains to Southern Colorado, so it's very similar in that respect.
 

The cost for land line phone service in Panama depends on the services obtained.  By experience it is always better to purchase Internet, TV Cable and land line phone services all under one contract since it is cheaper and the two main companies offering these services have all of them available.

 

Prices for land lines will increase depending on any additional features such as international calls, long distance within Panama, caller ID, etc., but the...

The cost for land line phone service in Panama depends on the services obtained.  By experience it is always better to purchase Internet, TV Cable and land line phone services all under one contract since it is cheaper and the two main companies offering these services have all of them available.

 

Prices for land lines will increase depending on any additional features such as international calls, long distance within Panama, caller ID, etc., but the fixed price will not change that much. The final expense will depend on the consumption of minutes additional to the ones included in the chosen plan.

 

Regular pricing for the plans that include all services may vary from $30 up to over $100 per month.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We offer medical tourism services in the Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas, which is a JCI accredited hospital. JCI is the Joint Commission accreditation, which a hospital organization that accredits hospitals around the world that have health, security, and quality standards in all of their medical and administrative processes. So, with the JCI accreditation, it means that Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas has the same processes as any of the other excellent hospitals in other...

We offer medical tourism services in the Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas, which is a JCI accredited hospital. JCI is the Joint Commission accreditation, which a hospital organization that accredits hospitals around the world that have health, security, and quality standards in all of their medical and administrative processes. So, with the JCI accreditation, it means that Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas has the same processes as any of the other excellent hospitals in other countries and in the US that are JCI accredited. Not even all hospitals in the US are JCI accredited. The JCI accreditation puts Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas in the same position as any top hospital in the US.

The sightseeing you can do in Belize is more oriented towards natural things like the turquoise waters, the waterfalls, and the jungle.

The sightseeing you can do in Belize is more oriented towards natural things like the turquoise waters, the waterfalls, and the jungle.

There are some absolutely beautiful islands in the Algarve near the border of Spain. To go there, you have to take a 40-minute boat ride.  There are about six islands there. Only one of those six is deserted. 
 
Up the coast towards the north, there is another island that is inhabited called Berlengas. It is a small island off the coast of Peniche. They have little summer cottages there, a lighthouse, a couple of restaurants, and a ferry that takes people over.
 
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There are some absolutely beautiful islands in the Algarve near the border of Spain. To go there, you have to take a 40-minute boat ride.  There are about six islands there. Only one of those six is deserted. 
 
Up the coast towards the north, there is another island that is inhabited called Berlengas. It is a small island off the coast of Peniche. They have little summer cottages there, a lighthouse, a couple of restaurants, and a ferry that takes people over.
 
Because we are so surrounded by sea, on the far coast of Lisbon, we have a river, the Tagus, which separates Lisbon from the south. It is a large river that starts in Spain, crosses Portugal, and finishes in the mouth of Lisbon, at the Atlantic Ocean. So to go to the other side, you have to take bridges. There are three to four bridges. All of the land south of Lisbon, after these bridges, have a vast area of land very sandy, which are called the peninsulas. This is a natural reserve for dolphins. When you are on a boat or a ferry in these areas, you will see a lot of dolphins. Here, you will find an area called Tróia, which is a peninsula. Some of these areas become islands when it is high tide, which only happens at certain times of the year. It is a beautiful area of Portugal because this is where the river meets the sea. This is also a paradise for birdwatchers. They are now developing this area for tourism. A complex of condominiums were just built around this area with villas and timeshares. It is a vast area.
 
There is another development down in the Algarve, which is also in the peninsulas. This whole area is very stunning. It has lots of wildlife and they are very well preserved.  

 

(Tróia Peninsula, Portugal, pictured.)