Find the Best of the Best - from Hotels to Restaurants, Parties to Properties - with IL's Free Reports How to Prepare for a Trip With Your Kids (html) (pdf) Learning Spanish-The Basics (html) (pdf) The World's 10 Best Travel Adventures (html)(pdf) A Global Guide to Property Ownership Rules and Restrictions (html)(pdf) 24 Hours in Panama (html)(pdf)
IL's 10 Favorite Shopping Havens (html)(pdf)
Party in Mexico Festivals A-Z (html)(pdf)
Worldwide Tax Summary (html)(pdf)
Three Secret Goldmines for the Lucrative Traveler (html)(pdf)
The Best of Steenie (html)(pdf)
The World's Most Romantic Escapes (html)(pdf)
Twenty-five Things You Must Know Before Buying Property Overseas (html)(pdf)
How to Prepare For a Move Overseas -- A Checklist (html)(pdf)
The World's Best Sporting Destinations (html)(pdf)
Twenty-five of the World's Best Beaches (html)(pdf)
Twenty-five of the World's Best Flea Markets (html)(pdf)
IL's Favorite Hotels (html)(pdf) (This is an abridged version of the complete edition available for sale in the IL Bookstore).
IL's Favorite Restaurants (html)(pdf) (This is an abridged version of the complete edition available for sale in the IL Bookstore).
A New Life on the High Seas (html)
Travel Secrets (html)
How to Prepare for a Trip With Your Kids With distant destinations now easily accessible, and low-cost airlines making travel more affordable, most parents plan to take their children with them when they go abroad. Making a family vacation a success for all, however, takes a little more than just booking the tickets. Read How to Prepare for a Trip With Your Kids in html format.
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Learning Spanish-The Basics You've heard it before…and if you've traveled much internationally, you know it to be true. If you at least try to speak the local language, you will be treated with much more respect than someone who doesn't make the effort. Read Learning Spanish-The Basics in html format.
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The World's 10 Best Travel Adventures In this report, we've gathered the world's 10 most adventurous vacations for you, the curious and active traveler. Whether you want to stimulate your mind, your body, or both, our recommended travel adventures will keep the sand out of your socks, and the snooze out of your stories. Read The World's 10 Best Travel Adventures in html format.
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To Have or To Lease: A Global Guide to Property Ownership Rules and Restrictions
Thinking about acquiring a second home abroad? Worried about the stories you've heard? The ones where, having written the last check to the real estate agent, local officials knock on your new door to inform you that you don't actually own your bijou residence on the beach…you were misinformed and you need to move out right now. Don't panic-help is at hand. We've done the groundwork for you already, and have sifted out the pitfalls and pluses of a variety of places where you might like to have a holiday or retirement home.
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24 Hours in Panama Panama is an adventure wonderland just waiting to be discovered. The country's expansive rainforests are among the richest and most complex on the planet. It's the only country where jaguars and pumas prowl just a short drive from the modern capital city. And, fortunately, Panama is a small country. In a short one- or two-week trip, you can see much of what this diverse country has to offer. In this special report, the IL team proposes a plan to get the most out of 24 hours in Panama. From a traditional Panamanian breakfast to a trip to the Miraflores Locks to evening drinks in a little boutique hotel overlooking the Bay of Panama…we have it all thought out. Read 24 Hours in Panama in html format.
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IL's 10 Favorite Shopping Havens For those with a passion for purchasing and collecting, haggling and bargain hunting, it can be difficult to narrow down the abundant treasure troves of the world to a few havens of shopping bliss. In this report, we've searched the globe to find the best shopping havens for the mavens of the mall. Every major continent is represented in the quest to find the perfect something. From rare antiques to high-end fashion, and from unique and quirky souvenirs to lush fabrics, you're sure to be enticed by at least a few destinations…each one offering an opportunity to create an extraordinary memory… Read IL's Favorite Shopping Havens in html format.
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Party in Mexico--Festivals A-Z Mexicans love to party. Fireworks, loud music, flowers, colorful decorations, and food, glorious food. If you travel to Mexico during an especially well-celebrated holiday, be sure to make your hotel reservations well in advance. This report includes a list of "official" Mexican holidays. Every city, town, and village also has its own holidays--founder's days, patron saint's days, battle commemorations, etc. Wherever and whenever you are in Mexico, you will not be far from a celebration or fiesta of some sort. For your enjoyment, IL also brings you an overview of our favorite festivals in Mexico--Día de los Locos (Day of the Crazies), Pamplonada, Día de la Independencia (Independence Day), Día de los Reyes (Three Kings Day), Festival Cervantino, and the International Festival Gourmet.
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Worldwide Tax Summary In this report, the staff of International Living provide you with a round-up of taxes in some of our favorite destinations: Argentina, Ecuador, France, Ireland, Panama, Honduaras, Italy, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Minimizing taxes may not be your top priority as you consider a move overseas, but as a potential expatriate you should find out in advance about income tax, inheritance/gift tax, transfer tax, capital gains tax, rental income tax, property tax, and whatever other taxes may apply--before you take the plunge into a new life overseas. Read the Worldwide Tax Summary in html format.
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Three Secret Goldmines for the Lucrative Traveler Lucrative travel is the term we've coined to describe travel that doesn't just pay for itself, but can actually earn you $100,000 or more a year…and deliver the flexibility you need to live anywhere in the world. This report highlights three top destinations with "goldmine potential." That is…hot-spots where you can make serious money gathering article ideas, snapping photos to sell, and shopping for items that could yield serious profit back home. Read Three Secret Goldmines for the Lucrative Traveler in html format here.
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The Best of Steenie She left school at 15 to live in a hippy squat in London. She tended bar in a strip joint…inspected bolts at a factory…waitressed in a Chinese restaurant, and clerked at a print shop where she typed invoices and lied to customers about why their orders weren't ready. Today she is International Living's roving Euro-editor, and regularly sends us notes from even further afield. Possessing a wisdom that only comes from years on the road, she pulls no punches in her writing…always honest, and with the unerring knack of getting into the cracks of a place, she discovers what it's really like, and reports back with humor and style. Now, in this free report, we've tried to bring together some of the best of Steenie's reports, articles, and tips…a near impossible task given the huge choice… Read The Best of Steenie Harvey in html format here.
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The World's Most Romantic Escapes Come February-the most romantic month of the year-you may be dreaming of an escape with your loved one to a special place…somewhere you can enjoy some quality time together. But where? You've probably already "done" Venice, Paris, and Niagara Falls… So where to this year? Luckily, we, at International Living, have been checking out some of the most seductive sites. In this special report, we've decided to let you in on our top 10 secret hideaways. Got your passport ready? Here we go… Read The World's Most Romantic Escapes in html format.
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How to Manage Your Overseas Property
When you buy property abroad, you can be sure of one thing: many of the procedures, methods, requirements, and taxes are different than at home. Laws, customs, and traditions all vary from country to country-sometimes, even within the same country. Regardless of whether you are keeping your property exclusively for your own use or putting it on the local rental market, there are certain obligations that you, the property owner, must fulfill. Read How to Manage Your Overseas Property in html here.
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 Twenty-five Things You Must Know Before Buying Property Overseas
Want to avoid some of the pitfalls common to buying property overseas? IL guides you through the practical and personal considerations involved in home hunting abroad. Learn how to save up to 30% in the real estate market, how to open an account as a foreign resident, and even what to do if you start "freaking out" in your new home. Read Twenty-five Things You Must Know Before Buying Property Overseas in html here.
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How to Prepare For a Move Overseas--
A Checklist
If there's one thing we've learned in our 25 years experience at International Living, it's that we're never really finished learning…that is, never finished learning the ins and outs of planning and executing a move overseas. This report will show you what we've learned so far…
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The World's Best Sporting Destinations
We've compiled this collection of sporting destinations with you, the active traveler, in mind. It's a mixed bag, from the quirky (cheese rolling in Gloucestershire) to the extreme (ski-jumping in Thunder Bay, Ontario). We hope this collection will inspire you to plan for the most adventurous, activity-packed holiday of your life. Read The World's Best Sporting Destinations in html format here.
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 Twenty-five of the World's
Best Beaches
Pack a picnic lunch, a good read, and a swimsuit (or not!) and head off the beaten path… Here are our recommedations for the best undiscovered beaches in the the world.
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Twenty-five of the World's
Best Flea Markets
During your travels, we hope you enjoy soaking up the local color that only a community flea market can offer.We also hope you'll come home a seasoned haggler…with lots of cool stuff! Read Twenty-five of the World's Best Flea Markets in html format here.
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 IL's Favorite Hotels
Traveling the world can be exhausting. We want you to find the best place to lay your weary head-according to your standards. So here's our best…to you. Sweet dreams!
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 IL's Favorite Restaurants
This International Living report on the world's best restaurants--from Moscow's best vegetarian restaurant to Paris' greasiest spoon--was created with you, the world explorer, in mind.
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A New Life on the High Seas
Not everyone who moves overseas has a particular country in mind. Kiana Delamare and John Pugsley live aboard their 50-foot sloop (Eris Island), sailing from port to port in the Caribbean. This is a little of their story. Read A New Life on the High Seas in html format here.
Travel Secrets
Detailed in this report are 33 International Living favorites…everything from the best place in Italy to shop for red lingerie to where to go for the best pastry in all of France… Read Travel Secrets in html format here. Download Acrobat Reader
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