By Robert Hill from the June 2011 Edition Many foreigners living in Mexico are unaware that a very strong and effective consumer protection agency exits here, called PROFECO (Procuraduria Federal Del Consumidor). It is a federal office which has offices in most principal cities throughout the Republic. The Subdelegado in Manzanillo is Victor Manuel Granados, […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the June 2011 Edition To put a twist on a well-known phrase –Manzanillo is ‘not just another pretty face’. Aside from its undulating tropical hills, magnificent beaches, ocean bays and fabulous climate, living here as an escapee from Canadian winters has proven to be a much more personal and endearing experience […]
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By Robert Hill from the May 2011 Edition I love Italian food, and over the years have learned to make a pretty decent spaghetti sauce from scratch, with the right blending of beef, pork, onions, tomatoes, garlic, basil, etc.. I even have an Italian pasta machine to make a variety of pasta shapes from the semolina […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the April 2011 Edition Phoenix roebelenii Family: Araceae (Also known as: Miniature Date Palm) The interest generated by an earlier column on the desert native, Medjool Date Palm, leads to this discussion of its tiny, tropical forest, “feather palm” cousin a highly popular accent plant which originated in Southeast Asia and […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the April 2011 Edition (A drive to Laredo and back) It was shortly after a Manzanillo midnight that we embarked upon our sojourn to Laredo. 2,963 kilometers, 2,006 pesos in road tolls, and three days plus seventeen hours later we would return. And just what was the impetus for this journey? […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the April 2011 Edition (The following is the seventh installment of a slightly embellished and bit fictionalized account of an almost real event!) We all have met ‘em. . . . . . you know the sort, it may be a brother-in-law, next door neighbor or that particularly irritating high school […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the April 2011 Edition Written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Perhaps, similar to that of a developed taste for a well aged, single malt scotch, the acquired appreciation for a delicious, dense and crumbly, marbled blue cheese, or – for some – the toasty taste of a firm, even […]
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By Robert Hill from the March 2011 Edition 126 Expats had fun yesterday as guests of the Mexican Navy, aboard their ship Manuel Doblado PO 104. Each paid $500 Pesos (about US $ 42.) for the event which raised roughly US $5,000 for the Naval Hospital Auxilliary in Manzanillo. The crew had rigged a large […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the March 2011 Edition Raggedy wings had the motley old crow but two more they were than man’d ever grow. As a kid, I used to dream that I could fly. For some reason or another, however, I had to climb a flagpole first and then commence to soar from there. […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the March 2011 Edition Alocasia amazonica Family: Araceae (Also known as: Amazon Elephant’s Ear, Green Velvet, Jewel Alocasia, Alocasia Alligator, Amazon Lily, African Black Shield Plant, Alocasia Polly (or Poly) Hilo’s Beauty Elephant Ear and I know a Mexican gardener who calls them (Vampire’s Ear!) Enjoying full sun to partial shade, […]
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