Who’s Winning The Bilingual Battle Now?
Some of you may have read my previous article about the battle I‘ve had on my hands to teach my Spanish kids…
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Unretirement: How You Too Can Take Control Of Your Life
I made my first international move from Baltimore, Maryland, to Waterford, Ireland, with the support of my longtime employer who’d given me…
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Black Friday The last weekend of July is a time of massive traffic congestion, caused by les juilletistes – the people who…
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Detailed Budgets For Your New Life In France (They’re Way Lower Than You Might Think) Years ago, when we were preparing for…
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Copenhagen, Denmark, the most livable city in the world according to many, home of the best restaurant in the world in NoMa,…
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“We want to buy a house,” we told the solicitor. We’d arrived in Edinburgh the day before, and had wandered into this…
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The World’s Best Horse Race No one knows for sure when it began or exactly why, but official record formalizes the event…
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Benvenuti and Welcome to all my Lovely Followers, If you are new to this column I should tell you that each month…
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One Of My Favorite Things About Paris I lay still with my eyes closed wondering if there were any chance I’d be…
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‘Quelle canicule!’ everyone exclaimed: ‘What a scorcher!’ June was exceptionally hot and dry, and I took to recycling our bath water to…
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