Cynthia Melo

✈️ Traveling the world with 2 kids ✈️
🏘️ Triple base lifestyle - Mexico, Spain, UK 🏘️
💲 Running Airbnbs 💲
🟡 A Down syndrome journey like no other 🟡

[Cynthia Melo @downright_life]

@Bladesam1983 Look through the eyes of your kids.

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@MagellanQuest One of my underrated travel memories is getting the train from Geneva to Saas Fe. Bliss. What a journey.

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@MyLatinLife "Sin obligations fiscals"

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@omkarships Being human.

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When you think you've fixed every issue in a new build you've built but the AC pipe drains directly into the wall...

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@FundamentEdge Preach. Right in this window right now. 8 and 6. A joy. A short lived joy. Possibly (definitely) the greatest period of life we'll experience on this mortal coil. Hashtag makingthemostofit.

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Took longer than expected (18 months more!), but the third house is finally ready. Fourth (a mirror image) due to be delivered 2/3 weeks. Allegedly.

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@joeyhar5255 @JakeNomada Agree with the sentiment, but having lived in both Cabo and Cancun for several years in each, with and without kids, Cancun & Playa beat Cabo hands down on every metric you listed. It's honestly not even close.

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@NDSPolicyGroup After living outside the UK for since the birth of my daughter, it's policies like this that give me serious thought about returning for her adult life.

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🎵🎶 Walking in the jungle, walking in the jungle, we are not afraid, we are not afraid. 🎶🎵

Awesome camping trip last weekend in the Yucatan rainforest 🌳. Luca's first time camping, and Harriet's first time since sleeping on a Baja Sur beach four years ago!

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We had to take Harriet for an operation on her ears in Monterrey - twice (no services in La Paz). Was comfortably the best hospital we've ever seen. More akin to a five-star hotel.

[Jake Nomada 🌎 @JakeNomada]

Seen some takes on healthcare in LatAm lately...

Many of them spot on

In my opinion, healthcare quality in LatAm is city-by-city

Top choices:

- Guadalajara 🇲🇽
- CDMX 🇲🇽
- Monterrey 🇲🇽
- Cancun 🇲🇽
- Panama City 🇵🇦
- Sao Paulo 🇧🇷
- Buenos Aires 🇦🇷

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Cynthia made these awesome flashcards to teach the kids about what to expect on our #London trip

Benefits:
✅Improve meta-cognition
✅Improve awareness
✅Engage active recall
✅Confidence-based repetition
✅Improve fine motor skills

Download them here: https://t.co/5X5t6VyL6V

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Going this year!

[Travels With My Boys @travelsmyboys]

Would you ever go to Lapland with your family? #lapland #santa

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This is the best Dia de Muertos festival in the Riviera Maya. Found in @XcaretPark. With special thanks the the state of @GobTlaxcala who were the special guests (food, dance, art, culture, music) this year.

#DayoftheDead #DiaDeMuertos #xcaret #culturamexicana #DiaDeMuertos

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Harriet loved this butterfly sanctuary in Mexico City. It's inside Chapultepec Zoo and costs a couple of dollars to enter. You get to feed the insects, release babies, and wander around freely. Highly recommended #butterflies #mexicocity #DownSyndrome

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Worse still, this bridge is one of the only ways to get between Chapultepec Park Sector 1 and Sector 2, so the fact there's not a better way to cross is bizarre

(For those who don't know, Chapultepec Park is the second largest city park in Latin America)

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Getting the kids prepped for Finland. Excited would be an understatement. #finland #downsyndrometravel #DownSyndrome #travelwithkids

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@LindaPeters64 Wow crazy. Doesn't look real 😱. What's the nearest city/big town to this place?

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@travelsmyboys We'll be away for the whole month of December. Longest one so far!