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6 Reasons Why You Must Drop Everything To Travel The World

31/12/2014 | Filed under: Expat Life, Moving Abroad, Travel | 21 Comments

Why not let this be the year you make the decision to head overseas, to explore and to wander? Here are the reasons why you’ll know when it’s time to go.

4 Ways Living Abroad Changes You Forever

15/12/2014 | Filed under: Lifestyle, Moving Abroad, Travel | 31 Comments

Living abroad is one of the most satisfying and challenging things I have ever done. It has altered the very core of who I thought I was and who I am now. I believe there are four ways that living abroad changed me. Four ways that it will also change you. Forever.

Minimalise Your Life

12/12/2014 | Filed under: Career, Lifestyle, Travel | 6 Comments

When we travel, we need less. When we move, we have to take less on the road. Travelling and moving abroad forces us to be minimalists. Travelling to the UK has brought minimalism to a head.

What Are You Prepared to Give Up to Get the Life You Want?

10/12/2014 | Filed under: Career, Expat Life, Lifestyle, Moving Abroad, Travel | 17 Comments

Most of us want to live the dream – have a great job, loving relationship, healthy body, interesting and exciting lifestyle – but are we prepared to make the effort to get there? Are we prepared to give things up along the way? Can we sustain the pain necessary to make those major life changes?

Playing to Australia’s Sport Obsession

21/10/2014 | Filed under: Expat Life, Travel | 2 Comments

I’ve never been that great at team sports. It pains me to put those words to paper but it’s true. […]

4 Ways Living Abroad Changes You Forever: I've tried to live my life to the fullest. Because living abroad is one of the most satisfying and challenging things a person can do. Living abroad changed me. And there are four ways it will also change you. Forever.
All Aboard The Expat Blogger Express: When I left the UK in search of a different way of life in 2003, I could never have imagined that 10 years later I’d be travelling by train across Canada as one of the world’s best travel bloggers, writers and photographers.
12 Life Lessons From 12 Years of Living Abroad: Twelve years ago, I moved abroad. Left everything I knew. Said goodbye to people I cherished. Packed up our house and shipped our family abroad. We had no idea what awaited us at the other end.
This Is What It’s Like Living With A Pregnant Partner: I’ve learnt that being a husband during a pregnancy is an abstract sort of thing. I’m the one playing catch-up as I watch from the sidelines feeling apprehension at that fast-approaching event called ‘fatherhood’.
6 Reasons Why You'll Know It's Time To Move Overseas: Life is short and all too fleeting and we can't have regrets. Rather than daydream with thoughts of far-off adventure, why not make this the year you head overseas and experience some of this world.
The True Cost Of Expat Living In Australia: Petrol has risen in price, house values continue to climb and the only saving grace is that interest rates seem to be dropping while salaries remain high. No-one told me living the expat dream could cost this much.