A Resource For Expat Lifestyles in Mexico
Places to go! Robert Brady Museum The Robert Brady Museum shows the collection of the artist, antiquarian, and decorator from Fort Dodge, Iowa. Ceramics, antique furniture, sculptures, paintings, and tapestries fill the restored colonial mansion, all beautifully arranged in rooms painted with bright colors. Note that the building numbers on this street are out of [...]
Things to do! In August: August 3-August 19, 2012 – San Miguel de Allende: The 34th International Chamber Music Festival 2012. Considered the top chamber music festival in Latin America, the Festival’s home base, the intimate and acoustically pleasing Angela Peralta Theater seats 400 people, with tickets ranging from $15.00 for balcony seating, to $42.00 [...]
Things to do! In September: September 9, 2012 – Ajijic, Lake Chapala: Regatta de Globos (Hot Air Balloons) is always held on the Saturday before Independence Day, which is September 16 this year. It is held at the soccer field on Calle Revolucion. This event is the beginning of the Fiesta Season that lasts [...]
Average Lifestyle rating: B+ (range C+ to A+) Home to one of Mexico’s largest American ex-pat communities, San Miguel de Allende, at the beginning of the 20th century was in danger of becoming a ghost town. It was snatched from the jaws of obscurity in the 1930s and 40s when its colonial structures were “discovered” by foreign artists who promptly [...]
In central Mexico are two of the most popular spots for expats to move: the Lake Chapala area and San Miguel de Allende. Both places have large gringo populations – large enough to affect the local economy. San Miguel de Allende has been around a long time, but after its colonial architecture was discovered in the 1930s, it blossomed into [...]
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