Country Archive
On The Streets of Granada
Date: 12/18/2006I enjoy Third World countries--I find them charming, romantic, and adventurous.
Read OnFree Swimming Pools and $20,000 Off Ocean-view Lots
Date: 12/15/2006$20,000 off the last three available ocean-view lots in the current phase at Gran Pacifica. You’ve read about Gran Pacifica in these dispatches before…a huge property of 2,200 acres with a three-and-a-half-mile stretch of beautiful sand beach.
Read OnThe Sandinistas Have Retaken Nicaragua? Yikes!
Date: 12/08/2006We’ve invited Steve to join us on the line for our “What Now? Nicaragua With Ortega Back in the Hot Seat” Teleconference…along with other friends invested and interested in this market, including property developers Mike Cobb and Lori Estrada, and myself.
Read OnAdios to Rum and Rocking Chairs
Date: 12/06/2006Where to have the last tipple of this trip? Where else but in a rocking chair on the porch of Granada’s Alhambra hotel. And it has to be Flor de Cana rum.
Read On“No Spanglish Spoken Here”
Date: 11/16/2006I’ve come to Casa Xalteva, one of Granada’s language schools. International Living’s man in Nicaragua, Joe Rosko, arranged for me to try one-on-one conversational Spanish lessons here.
Read OnYour Roving Reporter--Attacked by Wild Animals! (Almost)
Date: 11/15/2006Germany? No, this is Nicaragua’s Black Forest, the Selva Negra. In the northern highlands beyond Matagalpa, its cooler climate is ideal for coffee-growing.
Read OnWhy Handsome Men Should Avoid Leon
Date: 11/14/2006If you need an excuse to curse in Spanish, here’s a great one: Nicaraguan folklore tells that white owls are really evil spirits. Should an owl flap toward you, swear at it in the foulest of language…and the evil spirit will vanish.
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Please Allow Me to Introduce Valentin Lopez
Date: 11/13/2006I’m in Nicaragua’s Masaya province, on a pueblo blanco (white village) handicraft hunt with Delia Rueda of IL’s local office in colonial Granada. Delia will act as my translator, and hopefully help me nab a few bargains.
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