Tag: ‘France’

I am coming to the end of my visit to my one-time home of Panama, where I lived for seven ...

Unless you're very lucky, your friends and family won’t understand. When you tell them you're thinking about moving to a ...

When considering a move overseas, it’s important to take a serious look at the expat community in prospective new locations. ...

Deauville, known as the Parisian Riviera and the “Saint-Tropez Normande,” is one of the most famous getaways from Paris... Located ...

When I moved to Europe four years ago, my destination was clear: I was going to Paris. I had waited ...

As we’re discussing with the record-setting crowd online with us for this week’s Live And Invest In Europe Virtual Conference, ...

I traveled this week to La Rochelle on an easy three-hour train ride that took me from Paris to the ...

If you could have any view from your window, what would you most like it to be?Over the three-and-a-half decades ...

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

Talk about an inflation-busting opportunity… For the price of a mid-range car, you could own a village in Europe. Somewhere ...

Just back in Paris after two weeks traveling on the island of Cyprus with our family… including our 2-year-old granddaughter… ...

Speaking to some of our attendees in Portugal last month, many had questions about the cost of living in my ...

Back in Paris today with a plan to hang out in this part of the world for the next three ...

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

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

Back in Paris after a couple weeks in my former adopted home of Panama, I was struck anew by all ...

We live in a great big beautiful world that is bursting with opportunity around every corner if you decide to ...

Two decades living overseas, in Ireland, Panama, and France, have taught me... 1. Patience... the kind of patience you learn ...

"You have reminders of Paris all around," our friend born and raised in that city remarked over dinner at our ...

"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 to participate in one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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