The local place to go for all your plumbing and electrical needs. By Fern Corraini This month we focus our Spotlight on Jalisco Plumbing, El Centenario’s premier hardware store that offers a wide variety of plumbing and electrical supplies and services. With its walls of carefully arranged … Continue reading...
Six easy daytime excursions within a few hours' drive from La Paz. When you are an ex-pat living full-time in Mexico, you are bound to get a lot of questions from your friends and family. One question we hear a lot from people who are curious about our Baja lifestyle is some version of: “Don’t you … Continue reading...
Looking for fresh, organic produce? Frutería Lupita offers just-picked fruits and veggies from local growers. By Fern Corraini If you live in El Centenario you probably already know The Bacon Guy, The Cheese Lady and The Chicken Man…our very own purveyors of quality food made or grown locally. … Continue reading...
Bev and Rick Durvin's BCS Home & Pool property management company provides an invaluable set of property management services that helps keep many El Centenario residents' homes and pools in tip-top shape. But the couple provide much more than property management, which is why they are the focus … Continue reading...
The Simple Joy of Going Out for Breakfast…or Lunch/Brunch/Slunch by Fern Corraini Note: Before you read the article, you’ll need to know what a guiso is. Lacking a true English translation, a guiso is a “one-pot main course dish”. There are countless guisos in the gastronomy of Mexico: Papas y … Continue reading...
How one local restaurateur is finding a way to thrive even in the midst of a quarantine By Fern Corraini At kilometer 14 on the bay side of the highway in El Centenario, you will find a popular local restaurant named for its location: KM 14. Pre-COVID, KM 14 was a community hangout where expats … Continue reading...
How to find the Baja health insurance and care that’s right for you. By Fern Corraini Let’s face it: we’re all a little worried about getting sick these days. Most of our health concerns revolve around COVID-19, and we seem to have pushed the threat of other illnesses/accidents into the … Continue reading...
Our female readers have spoken! Get their recommendations here. By Fern Corraini To get the full list, download our complete Girl's Guide to La Paz here: A Girl's Guide to La Paz Where do you go to get your shopping, hair, nails and socializing done? The women of La Paz have spoken! … Continue reading...
What’s it like to live as a single woman in La Paz? Is it safe? Is it social? Our writer, Fern Corraini, shares her experience. La Paz was recently chosen one of the best travel destinations in the world for single women. Let’s go a step further and say that La Paz is one of the best living … Continue reading...
Over 30 years ago I was invited to spend Dia de Los Muertos in Patzcuaro, Michoacán, possibly the most traditional observance of Day of the Dead in modern Mexico. We travelled in small candlelit boats across Lago de Patzcuaro to the cemetery on the island of Janitzio. Bathed in orange from the … Continue reading...
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