Cultural experience

What’s fun about expat life is seeing things. The little, ordinary things that are not ordinary to you, or that for some reason catch your foreign eye. I lived in…

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.  ~Bill Vaughan Happy New Year! I gathered…

Are you a Westerner living the expat life in a developing country? Then you know what happens when you visit the place where your roots are. We all experience the…

The narrow streets are flooded with tourist groups, washed ashore by the mighty river Rhône swollen with cruise boats. We are in Arles, the South of France. My prince and…

You decide to pull up stakes and move to France. Sell your house, buy another one. Ship all your stuff. You don’t know the country and you speak awful French. You are an idiot. How many ways can you drive yourself nuts?