There are floods sometimes in Mexico but I’ve never personally been in a place with a flash flood. .jpg)
Tobago has a Festa del Mar fest in January usually (next year will be their 3rd annual festival). For the daring, go to the jungles of Darien, but take a guide. Also remember the Smithsonian annual seminars at the National Headquarters in Ancon on Tuesdays at 4 pm. The seminars include interesting presentations on floral....jpg)
True what everyone says. As a dual-passport holder having two has been both 
The cost of living in Portugal is probably the lowest in Europe, but on the other hand, the salary rate here is also among the lowest in Europe. Somebody coming from a more prosperous country or a person who is coming from a country with a strong currency will find Portugal to be incredibly cheap place in which to live, to rent a house, as well as for day to day living. 
Belize is not a birding destination but we do have birding here. The San Ignacio area alone is home to over 200 species of birds. Some of the more popular ones are the Keel-billed Toucan and the Scarlet Macaw. These are now protected species because they have been targets of poachers coming from neighboring countries. We also have the Acorn Woodpecker, the Collared Aracari, the Azure-Crowned Hummingbird, Motmots, and many other kinds of birds around the Cayo area. A Motmot is a...A Writer in Panamá
When I retired, I moved to France. But I found France had become – not the political entity “The United States of America”, and not part of either of the two continents by the name, but rather America – the occidental culture (or lack thereof) of hucksterism. The one that has each person pulling what he or she can out of as many other people’s pockets as possible while trying to outyell those others in a quest for attention – the culture of multinational firms that have...
It was the extra toilet paper holder, a lace and chintz contraption hanging on the wall, that made us laugh. The room in which we stayed was called Limonera, named for the lime tree in its private terrace, which was a separate studio around the back of the main house of Park Eden in El Valle de Anton, Panama. If I were a detective, I would say it was originally the residence of someone who loved to read, for there were many books along the wall, and who loved Panama for the...
dating back to 15th century. The story tells us that a