Welcome to Islabuild

We are a married couple based in the UK and in 2003 we embarked on an adventure to build a
vacation home on the tiny Caribbean island of Isla Mujeres, Mexico.

This website was born on September 9th 2003 as a journal for people to track the progress of that adventure.

Interest in our project took us by surprise with people interested in not only the day to day story of our adventure
but also asking for advice on both the legal and practical aspects of a foreigner building a home in Mexico.

We have now moved on and are designing houses in other parts of the globe, but we made many friends and
accquaintances during our time in Mexico and in an effort to perpetuate the information exchange on aspects of
Mexican life, particulary Isla Mujeres, we created the Isla Mujeres Speak Easy (IMSE) forum on February 21st 2005.

The aim of the forum was, and still is, to encourage interest, debate and friendship for this tiny island

The forum is a free resource and hopefully people from all parts of the globe will be informed
and entertained which is, after all, what the internet is about.

We invite you to join the forum, maybe learn, maybe laugh and maybe make their first trip
to Isla Mujeres, one of the best little islands in the Caribbean.