Keeping The Home Fires Burning
As a Brit in the USA, married to an American, and having children all born and raised here, it’s important to me…
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Two Old Fools And Wildfires In Spain
“Another day in paradise,” I thought as I climbed the staircase to our roof terrace. February is usually the coldest, wettest month…
Read more →The Importance of Setting Networking Goals for Your Expat Career and International Job Search
Most people know that networking is critical to international career advancement and the international job search. However not everyone is familiar with…
Read more →Homeland
Being an expat is the easy part, being good at it – not so ‘all in your stride’ straightforward. I’ve just arrived…
Read more →Finding A Rental In Las Tablas, Panama
I spent my first three weeks in Las Tablas, Panama, homeless and alone. I had traveled to Las Tablas while my husband…
Read more →Social Integration
When you move to another country where English is not the first language or there are religious and cultural differences these may…
Read more →Leaving Home
Cayman’s earliest settlers would have come by boat – some time in the early 1600s – from Jamaica or Cuba. There is…
Read more →Canada Celebrates… February!
Where “chilled” is more than just a temperature – it’s a state of mind…Here in Canada, “the powers that be” recognize the…
Read more →Cost of Living Is Cheap, Cheap, Cheap in Thailand
When researching places to settle upon retirement everyone has different requirements and preferences. There are those who have lived the expat life…
Read more →Taking The Good With The Bad In New Zealand
One of the things that I thought about a lot when we moved to New Zealand back in May 2010 was, “Will…
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