Tag: ‘France’

The United States of America is the best/easiest place in the world to own guns. Period. It’s the only place ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Lief and I are spending a lot of time these days talking about travel plans. Now that it's possible to ...

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 ...

I'm a city girl. I love living in cities and have been unhappy whenever I've lived, even briefly, in smaller ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...