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3 Things Dating Foreign Women (And Marrying One) Taught Me

19/02/2015 | Filed under: Expat Life, Moving Abroad | 24 Comments

When I look back and reflect on the romantic highs and lows that I’ve had, I realise there were three life lessons I learnt from dating foreign women.

Raising My Bilingual Baby

11/10/2012 | Filed under: Expat Life | 53 Comments

“You should raise your child bilingually”, my heavily pregnant French friend suggested to me a few week’s ago as she […]

Say What? How to Understand an Australian

25/08/2012 | Filed under: Uncategorized | 18 Comments

The Olympics truck has rolled on by (at least until the Paralympics). Games fever has passed. London 2012 is over […]

Lessons in Language

25/11/2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized | 34 Comments

Our English language is funny – a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing. ~J. Gustav White. The […]

Lost in Nonverbal Translation

16/08/2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized | 9 Comments

NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches This is the second of our four-way guest posts on NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, where I and three […]

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.