Everybody at International Living loves Argentina. We jump at any chance to let you know about its European-style exuberance...its flea markets…vineyard tours…tango-dancing…and other great travel experiences. Last April, I got the chance to explore the Inca sites, colonial towns, and highland villages of Argentina’s northwest. What I found didn’t disappoint me—and I don’t think it will disappoint you either.

After more than a year-and-a-half of planning, changing, reworking, counting, building, and communicating, I’ve finally moved into my house in Rancho Santana, Nicaragua. It doesn’t normally take so long to build a house here. You could do it in less than a year.

Festivals around the world in August 2005 include a colorful food fight and an outlandish tribal expression.

It’s not going to happen tomorrow, but the odds are, in three to five years time, investors will look back on those pre-election days of September 2005 and wonder, why on earth didn’t we place some more faith into Germany’s legendary reliability and quality?

Fed up with 12-hour days working as a family physician in the States, Murray Friedman uprooted and left the rat race behind. He considered Panama, before finally opting for Mexico, where he now runs a B&B in San Miguel de Allende with his partner. “Life’s too short” is Murray’s mantra. You may think so, too.