Moving to Luxembourg ten months ago was the first time I’d moved together with someone else. All my previous moves, including three international ones, had been by myself. Moving together is a different experience of course, but one I wanted to address today, since so many of us move with husbands and wives, with fiancées…
One of the best parts of being an expat is all the new friends you have the opportunity to meet, often people with very different cultures, backgrounds and ideas. Meeting them and getting to know their stories is such an enriching experience and I wouldn’t exchange it for anything. The other side of the coin,…
The thing about expat life is, it comes with a lot of goodbyes. The day I left Brussels I cried buckets. I was leaving a home I adored and friends I loved. But I’d also been saying goodbye pretty regularly for the last four years, as fellow expat friends did their own leaving. Expats will…
“God sets the lonely in families…” It takes about eight hours to travel back to where my parents live. That’s four hours driving, an hour on the train, another three hours driving. Even flying is not a lot quicker once you add in check in time and the fact that your suitcase will undoubtedly be…
There’s this interesting phenomenon of international community organisations that you discover as an expat. Yes, you may have moved hundreds or thousands of miles across the globe, but the first thing many foreigners do is join the local British/American/Scandinavian/Irish group. Even where there aren’t official organisations, you can often find people gravitating towards people from…
We’re one week into my 31 days series! This week, I’m looking forward to exploring with you a few different ways you can embrace the unique relationships of expat life. But first, let’s start with the hard. Let’s start with the loneliness. Moving to Luxembourg ten months ago was my fourth international move. You’d think…