Is San Cristobal de las Casas Set to Be the Next Big Expat Retiree Destination?

Pros & cons of San Cristobal de las Casas, in Chiapas, Mexico, after having spent a month here.
Historical Fiction & Business Author, World Traveler & Speaker
Historical Fiction & Business Author, World Traveler & Speaker
Pros & cons of San Cristobal de las Casas, in Chiapas, Mexico, after having spent a month here.
Physically fit travel bloggers rarely mention the impact of elevation on what you can do. But even the fittest of us can struggle at high altitude.
An inventive, entertaining and thought-provoking book of short stories.
An extraordinary book. Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead is well worth the time it takes to read or listen to.
When school and family conflict over Christmas traditions, what's a Jewish Grade One student supposed to believe?
Four books to enjoy reading over the holidays (or at any other time!)
How a secular, humanist Jew loses friends on both sides of the Israel-Gaza divide. It is scary to speak up at a time like this but too isolating not to.
You get a different sense of history when you read old newspapers instead of just history books.
Written in 1940 about Stalinist Russia, Darkness at Noon contains a chilling explanation of the recent trend towards authoritarianism in much of the world. I give it 5 stars.
Street Corner Dreams: A Novel by Florence Reiss Kraut My rating: 4 of 5 stars My father grew up in a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn that was about half Italian and half Jewish. It marked him in several ways, most…
Nero gets an unfair bad rap, according to Margaret George's book, The Confessions of Young Nero. If you grew up in the kind of environment he did, you'd have issues too.
There's a lot to love about Cuenca, Ecuador. But it has a few downsides too. This article should help you decide if it's right for you.