Tweet Tweet UNESCO World Heritage Site #157: Rietveld Schröder House From the World Heritage inscription: With its radical approach to design and the use of space, the Rietveld is an icon of the Modern Movement in architecture and an outstanding expression of human creative genius in its purity of ideas and concepts as developed by the De Stijl movement. It occupies a seminal position in the development of architecture in the modern ...

...eaking schools and these are only located where there is a high concentration of English speaking people, namely, wealthy expats living on or near the beach or in the Nation’s Capital. Here are some typical expenses: House or condo purchase: One bedroom condo within/outside of primary tourist area. $75,000 (and higher) / $40,000 2 bedroom house within/oustide of primary tourist area. $200,000 (and higher) / $90,000 4 bedroom house (V...

When I woke up last Saturday morning, I never imagined for one minute that it would be the last time we’d be living in that house as a family. If I had, perhaps I would have felt much sadder and would have taken time to sit and reflect on all the great and not so great memories that I have in that house. I’d become very attached to it, although it may just be bricks and mortar. But it is the first place I called ‘home’ in France and I learnt and...

...y cleared the land and plopped a big, giant mansion down right there facing the ocean. Of course it burned down on July 4, 1921 (the luck this guy has). In 1927, he thought he’d give it another try and decided to have another house built. The mansion was real big and never got completely finished. Ultimately, the maintenance of the house got to Where Simpson’s Houses Used to Stand. Now stands an observation deck, puny compared to the actua...

...ning trying to sort it out and get it back. Luckily eventually they did and we then got on a bus to Playa Guanico. The bus took four hours and then thankfully Russ picked us up at Chicle and drove us the next two hours to the house. To get to the house you drive to the Making bread on Xmas Dayend of the road and then along the beach. The house is set back from the beach with a nice porch and hammock. Russ has been busy planting so the garden is...