Becoming Expats in the Yucatán
We were walking around like we owned the place.
And we do, we do own the place. This was the first time we walked around in it. Alone, not sharing the space with construction workers.
We were handed keys. Just three keys, out of 20-some that open various doors around our house in Santa Ana. That will have to be [Read more…]
It’s all over the newspapers and social media. Yesterday a big boom alarmed the residents of El Centro Hysterical. “Súper trueno” causa alarma en Mérida, was the headline in Diario de Yucatán. “Trueno” is lightning thunder.
Reading one story, I became a little alarmed myself. The story was typically vague until it depicted a damaging lightning strike, and it spelled out the address… the same calles that mark my street and cross streets. The address I’ve been memorizing so the cab drivers know where to go. My exact block! Flying concrete, broken [Read more…]
La Musa on the Paseo de Montejo at Calle 43. Bring your bike and they knock a little off your tab.
My friends wonder out loud what Paul and I will be eating once we make the big move to Mérida, and I want them to know that it won’t be all tacos and enchiladas. Despite my attempts to educate my poor unenlightened friends about Yucatecan food, they don’t know much about it.
So how do I go beyond that and tell them that I’m also going to be enjoying other cuisines as well?
La Musa, a French-inspired café, opened recently on the Paseo and Calle 43, very close to our home. I think it attracts more of a local, younger crowd. If we’re the only aging expats in line, so be it.
The Facebook group Bienvenido a Yucatan gave them a little shoutout, and a friend whose [Read more…]
It’s time to start scouting ahead for furniture. Sounds like fun, right? Not really. Not in Mérida.
I keep hearing that selections have improved. So why do I have such a hard time finding, in my price range, a sofa I don’t hate. Even a lot of the sofas out of my price range look like designs that played out years ago north of the border.
Right now, I’m shopping online, so I haven’t seen anything in person and I haven’t tested Yucatán’s notoriously stuff cushions. Our time in Yucatan is always precious, and furniture shopping can be a huge time-suck. So I’m using the Internet as much as possible, contacting [Read more…]