Events

Best of the Best, February 2020

February 29, 2020 0
February Best³  was too, too much fun!  Lots of people here for the season, plus we who live here all or most of the year — 50+ peeps.   Eric won the draw for a bottle of Cueva Vodka donated by Turtle Bay Café & Bakery, and Fred won the bottle of [……]
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Tips for Reading AkumalNow

February 29, 2020 0
An odd thing happened lately while reading AkumalNow.  All 11 posts didn’t show up in my email edition — the Lunita Valentines Day menu and a great article about local artist Rory Eade were MIA.  However, they did appear when I opened AkumalNow from the desktop icon of my laptop.  [……]
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Akumal Book Club

February 29, 2020 0
  The book club will meet on 12 March at 7 pm to discuss The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See.   Come to Carly’s, Yool Caanal #2.   Then later this month  on the 26th we’ll meet at Mary’s, Casa Tranquilidad ground floor rear, also at 7 pm.  The [……]
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Tulum Post Office

February 29, 2020 1
Two weeks ago I got a phone call saying there was a package for me — and that’s about all I understood!  So I said, “Huh?”,  and the man said he’d send a map.  When I looked at the map it was easy to see the call came from the [……]
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Trivia Contest Results

February 29, 2020 0
The BIG news is that $43,000 mx was raised for Hekab be library! Much of the proceeds was raised by ticket sales.  And the library kids did their part, too.  Art work they made was sold, some pieces even bought to be resold by a gallery in Tulum with profits [……]
Akumal Foodie

Akumal Foodie – Turtle Bay Cafe & Bakery

February 29, 2020 0
–Meeting a friend for lunch at Turtle Bay Café & Bakery, I had the good fortune to run into Bart Smith, co-proprietor of this favorite spot for tourists and locals. Purchased by Jennifer and Bart Smith in 2003, Turtle Bay was originally owned by Thomas and Sydney Reagan. The Smiths [……]
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What’s New Around Akumal – March 2020

February 29, 2020 0
Not real, real new, but it may be to you.  Here’s a place to have your computer repaired, PC Depot.  In Playa del Carmen on Constituyentes between 35th & 40th, north side of the street.  Average age of the techs is 11½, so you know they’re good!   And this [……]
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Exercising for Flexibility & Balance

February 29, 2020 0
It’s been pointed out to me, as a member in good standing of the geezers, that aging doesn’t relieve one of the obligation to maintain (at least a modicum of) good physical condition.  Many seniors walk and even use dumbells, and that’s great.  But a real problem  seems to be [……]
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Bits & Pieces – March 2020

February 29, 2020 0
  A little this & that from the media.       • Toxic seaweed a menace to Caribbean tourists  https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1UL1ZG • What happened to Tulum? How the ‘anti-Cancún’ lost its ethereal luster • Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health  https://e360.yale.edu/features/ecopsychology-how-immersion-in-nature-benefits-your-health • These 20 women were trailblazing explorers—why did [……]
People

Rory Eade: Akumal Artist

February 14, 2020 3
Most readers will have seen all the amazing art work that has appeared around Akumal pueblo over the past two years. While much of the work is created by visiting artists during the Akumal Arts Festival, there are quite a few artists who call Akumal home. One of them is [……]