By Ronan McMahon
I’ve just returned from a scouting trip to Roatan—the largest of Honduras’ Bay Islands.It’s located off the Caribbean mainland coast. La Ceiba is the closest mainland city. The island is 37 miles long and five miles wide at its widest point. This is a picture perfect Caribbean island
Everything is modern, new, and shiny. The Malaga airport is state of the art. New highways propel drivers west to Marbella, on to Gibraltar and toward Portugal.
Sitting here, calm Caribbean waters winking, warm breezes gently flapping beach umbrellas, ice cold drink in hand, I’m enjoying my first taste of life in this early-in Caribbean resort community.
Just over a decade ago Argentina spectacularly unraveled with the biggest default in history—$100 billion. Dollar deposits were converted to pesos. Then, overnight, the peg of one-to-one with the dollar was broken.
Medellin, Colombia is an extremely pleasant city of 2.5 million people (3.5 million if you include the outer valleys). At 5,000 feet elevation, the weather is perfect. Most days have sunshine and temperatures in the 70’s.
I got an e-mail from a member of our little group last week. He told me that he’s looking forward to getting back to Ireland this May to play some of our great links including Doonbeg, Ballybunion and Lahinch.
If you are new to our group let me bring you up to speed on Costa Rica’s Southern Zone and the Pacific Lots project. Here you’ll find a bright, thick, green jungle canopy that rolls down to a coast of sandy beaches and rocky points. It’s truly stunning. While prices in the north soared…prices here stayed low.
A new and excellent road means that Las Terrenas is now only one hour and 45 minutes from Santo Domingo.
Lake Arenal, Costa Rica has been overlooked. I can’t explain why. I can see no good reason. It’s just one of those anomalies.
It’s stunningly beautiful. The weather is near perfect. The community of locals and expats is welcoming and friendly. The road here is good and you don’t want for any modern conveniences or amenities.
The Province of Limon
There has been little development of the real estate and tourism markets here. It’s hard to understand why. The drive from San Jose brings you through jaw dropping virgin and protected Braulio Carrillo national park and rain forest. The coast stretches south opening up into stunning white-sand beaches.