RE/MAX October Newsletter 2015 Good Deeds Both islanders and foreign residents express generosity in many, many ways here on Roatan. Rotary International Roatan has one of the most active Rotary groups in Central America. This group does a great job in giving back to the island: scholarships for students, medical supplies, water and septic systems for local schools. You name …
Merry Christmas…..’Follow your Dreams!’
We wished to take a minute during this busy season to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas & a happy & healthy News Years. If you are considering our ‘Investment & Discovery Tour’ we have our preliminary Agenda for your review. Drop me a line and I will send you a copy. You do not want to miss …
Updated Tour & travel info………… ehh!
If you are not interested in the ‘Discovery & Investment Tour’ or you do not live in Canada or very close to the Canadian border there is no reason for you to read on…………… If you are Canadian , even if you are not planning on coming on the Tour, you may wish to keep this travel info. You can …
Why Your Next Trip Should be Roatan, Honduras
I spotted this article this morning via my Google alerts and thought I would share it. The island regularly gets good press and this a new one for us. Check it out here and hope you are making your plans for your next trip!
A Fourth Honduran Cruise Ship Port?
Check out the article from our friends at Honduras.com regarding the opening of the new Trujillo Cruise ship Port Next week and a fourth one in two years on the Pacific coast. Adventure will abound for cruise ship passenger visiting this country! Click here for the story….
Here is not There Culture Differences #4
Here is not there……. To me one of the HUGE benefits of living here is the tremendous quantity of fresh seafood & fruits and vegetables available all year around. FRESH makes flavors ‘POP’ and most of it is naturally grown. Of course this makes for fat , sometimes weird shaped carrots, instead of the uniform sized little ‘soldiers’ you get …
Here is not There…….Culture Differences #3
Here is not there……. ‘There’, when stores have sales they often promote it in various ways which may be as in places like newspaper’s , magazines, radio, TV. Although some of that may happen on the mainland of Honduras not so much on the islands. Here (and on the mainland, in addition to what they use for advertising), they roll …
Here is not There…….Culture Differences #2
Here is not there……. If you go to almost any translator software or Spanish/English dictionary and look up mañana you will find the definition of tomorrow. That is not necessarily so because in reality it is the definition but in practice not so much. In my experience it is more like sometime in the future. If you make an appointment …
Here is not There…….Culture Differences -Notary/Attorney
Here is not There…….. Notary…Attorney There, it is not a large challenge to become a notary. Here it is. Here a Notario (Notary) requires a law degree plus considerable extra education. If you communicate with a REALTOR regarding a real estate transaction, in most instances, (for any document that needs to be filed in a government Registry), you will need …
Mail delivery -From your old home to your new home
Honduras actually has a mail delivery system and on the mainland they actually have addresses in many places. Not so much here in the Bay Islands. You actually can mail something from the U.S. or Canada and address it something like ‘Joe Smith’, Fosters, West Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras and ‘Joe’ would probably get it. You actually can address …