Tag: ‘France’

"What are we doing?" Lief asked me the other morning as we were dressing for the day, rushed, hurried, confirming ...

Not everyone is cut out for life in the developing world or the tropics. If your retirement dream is all ...

Christmas In The Emerald Isle iStock/eugene_remizov Our seven Christmases in Ireland, we could never bring ourselves ...

Twenty years ago, Vicki and I spent our first Christmas in Paris. We stayed in Paris all that winter and ...

These days, as you know, Lief and I are dividing our time between Panama and Paris. This holiday season 2021, ...

I would argue that most things in life are better with a twist… something unusual… unexpected… unfamiliar… makes anything more ...

When it comes to living in Europe, you’re not limited by your city or town—perhaps the best thing about living ...

Back in Paris now with a plan to hang out in this part of the world through the end of ...

When moving overseas, one of the hardest things to do—after you've gotten your residency and set up your home and ...

Europe has been a draw for me since I was in high school. I saved up my junior year to ...

One of my favorite things about retiring in Portugal is that it's just a day's drive to most Spanish locations ...

For people with disabilities, accessibility in an overseas haven is key. Countries around the world are making an effort to ...

It’s true... Europe doesn’t offer the same shoestring bargain lifestyle options that you can find in Latin America or Asia. ...

I’ve been hosting conferences on living, retiring, and investing overseas for more than 30 years. At these events I’ve met ...

Lief and I are on a plane as you read this... repositioning from Paris to Panama. While I'm always eager ...

Day by day in these dispatches, I work to show you that you can reinvent your life for the better ...

This week we’re digging into comparisons... Because no place is perfect, everywhere has its pluses and minuses, and the best ...

The overseas property market is booming, and now is a better time than ever to invest in real estate. Offshore ...

I give a presentation for our annual Live and Invest in Europe Conferences… sharing my “expat story,” as we refer ...

The best place to live in the world is very subjective, the answer is different for everyone. If you could ...

Just about anyone who took French in high school has thought, seriously or hypothetically, about moving to France one day. ...

When I moved to Europe, my destination was clear... I was coming to Paris. I had waited for 12 years ...

World’s best quality of life... World’s best health care... World’s most beautiful cities... Healthiest food… finest wine... The good life ...

The naturist community dates back to the turn of the 20th century in some countries and has always attracted people ...

In 2012, Lief and I bought an apartment in Medellín, Colombia. It was nearly 400 square meters in an architecturally ...

It’s finally happening… the world is finally, slowly opening back up again. Here in France, museums and monuments have been ...

"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd ...

Nearly two-and-a-half decades living overseas—in Ireland, France, and Panama—have taught me...  1. Patience... the kind of patience you learn doing ...

Welcome to In Focus: Europe. My name is Kat Kalashian, and I've been an expat in Europe for over 12 years ...

One of the big lessons we learned over the last year is our ability to be more self-sufficient. Between restaurant ...

To any keen cyclist, bicycle tourism isn’t a new phenomenon… The concept of traveling to a new country, bike in ...

Where in the world will offer the best options for repositioning yourself overseas in 2021? Diversifying your lifestyle and your ...

For my family and me, one of the greatest things about living an expat life has been the combining of ...

With the whole world going through a pandemic, many countries have different rules and restrictions regarding travel. This causes a ...

If you want to open a bank account in the United States, you walk into a branch of a bank ...

I'm never shy when it comes to singing the praises of my adopted home and favorite city: Paris. But I've ...

If you’d been thinking about taking your job on the road and embracing the digital-nomad lifestyle sometime in the future, ...

"The word for a scraping in Italian is graffito," explained our guide. "Here at Pompeii," he continued, "on the facades of ...

As you write to remind us regularly, not everyone is cut out for life in the developing world or the ...