Living in Canada Archives - In Search of a Life Less Ordinary

When Your Own Backyard Isn’t Big Enough

16/07/2013 | Filed under: Expat Life | 10 Comments

Editor’s Note: This is a post from Laura Fortey, a Canadian journalist who has travelled extensively while reporting for Metro News. […]

Canada, eh?

30/03/2013 | Filed under: Canada, Travel | 28 Comments

Canada. The great white north. The world’s second largest country. A land bordered by the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans. […]

The Greatest Expat Of All

24/09/2012 | Filed under: Expat Life | 16 Comments

We’re often influenced by people from different walks of life. By men and women we respect, admire and look up […]

Seeing Everything And Wanting It All

14/03/2012 | Filed under: Uncategorized | 16 Comments

“We’ve just had 61 centimetres of snow in the last week… such great conditions.” “Another amazing powder day today with […]

My London’s Burning

10/08/2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized | 14 Comments

The sadness I feel at watching London burn is immense. Surprisingly so because I’ve worked and spent large periods of […]

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.