Tag: ‘France’

Heart versus head. When it comes to choosing where to live overseas, both have to play an important part. The ...

People often take Europe off the list of possibilities for where to move or invest overseas because they assume the ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

My expat story started very close to the start of my life. I was only 7 years old when we ...

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

These days, as you know, Lief and I are dividing our time between Panama and Paris. As we head into ...

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, ...

Absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder, and our extended time away from Paris these past several months has ...

"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 ...

If you want to understand how the French think and what is on their minds... start here: This map is ...

After living in Spain, close to Barcelona, for seven years, we (my husband, two children, and I) decided it was ...

Historically in these dispatches, we've given a lot of virtual ink to Latin America. That's because it's nearby to North ...

Last week my husband and I successfully renewed our residency permits here in France, and, boy, are we relieved to ...

The Schengen Zone refers to a large area consisting of 26 European countries which have chosen to eliminate any internal ...

Access to reliable internet is one of the major decisive factors when looking at countries to relocate to. Whether you’re ...

On stage yesterday for the opening morning of this week’s Global Property Summit taking place in Panama City, with the ...

Where in the world can you obtain bank financing as a foreigner for the purchase of real estate? I get ...

After Thanksgiving with family and old friends in Baltimore, Kathleen and I returned to Paris for six weeks. We seldom ...

All American expats I know are today paying their respects, in big ways or small, wherever in the world they ...

For the past week, we've been making the point that Europe is a more affordable live- or retire-overseas option than ...

In the center of the courtyard, shoulder to shoulder and bent over a small map, stood Lief, our Paris property ...

One of the things I appreciated most about my years living in France was the opportunity it gave me to ...

The Best Destinations In The World, Sorted By Internet Speed Connection For internet savvy expats, having the fastest internet connection ...

Europe Travel Tips—When “Low Cost” Doesn’t Pay Panama is, indeed, the Hub of the Americas, and, living in Panama City, ...

The Sounds Of Summer In Paris For the past week, I've had the flu. My son came home from camp ...

This Medieval Village Is Soaked In The Tradition Of French Wine I spent the night in St. Emilion last week ...

Discovering The Continent With Paris As A Base Eleven years ago this summer, Lief and I repositioned ourselves and our ...

The popular freelance transportation company Uber suspended its operations in France on July 3, following a week of angry and ...

World's Top Retirement Havens For Golfers Searching for the overseas retirement haven with your name on it but can't imagine ...

You’ve read these lists before—Pebble Beach, Augusta, Sand Hills… but what if you want to play some challenging golf and ...

As national debate in the United States turns toward curtailing the Patriot Act, Canada and France are ramping up their ...

Build A Burgeoning Global Property Portfolio Starting With As Little As $500 Panama City, Panama When I left you yesterday, ...