There are so many things that need to be done when you are doing an expat move. List to be checked off, bags to be packed, things to be sold, things you need to buy. Passports. Visas. Miles of red tape (well, depending on where you’re headed). But here are my essentials, the things you […]
A Monday Minute – Life Is Like A Game Of Skittles…
Or ten pin bowling. And in this game, it’s us who are the skittles (although at the moment I’m feeling more bowling ball shaped, but that’s another issue entirely…). When you move, you end up in a place with lots of other people you have never met before. It may take a while, but these […]
A Monday Minute – A Plastic Free Cup of Tea
Plastic in teabags? I always thought teabags were made of paper and completely compostable. Turns out that’s rather far from the truth…
Expat Author: Stephanie Suga Chen ‘Travails of a Trailing Spouse’
One of the lovely and unexpected things that has happened since I set up The Expat Book Club is that I have made connections with lots of other expat women – all of them are readers, but some of them are authors too. So I thought I would do a series of ‘Expat Author’ interviews to highlight […]
A Monday Minute – Best Warm Gloves Ever!
As part of my being kinder to the planet aim, I have decided to try and be more conscious about what I buy. I want to buy things that will last rather than wear out and need to be replaced. And I also probably need to kick my Zara habit into touch a bit too… […]
A Weekend in Rome – Top Travel Tips
A weekend in Rome. Sounds pretty perfect, right? But what about a weekend in Rome with girlfriends? Woop woop! All my travel posts are about travelling with kids. Because I have two kids and I love to travel with them. Also leaving them home alone isn’t really an option… So I jumped at the chance […]
A Monday Minute – A Change is as Good as a Rest
But is a rest as good as a change? Expats, by definition, are used to a lot of change. But has anyone ever found the changes involved in moving overseas restful? Erm…I doubt it! But I am a person who likes change; I love going to new places, trying new things, meeting new people. The […]
A Monday Minute: Failing and Falling
I am a perfectionist. Or rather a failed perfectionist as I am rubbish at everything. (That’s a joke…I know, it’s rubbish – like I said…) Getting over a Fear of Failing The problem with having perfectionist tendencies is that they can be very restrictive. Because if you can’t do something right, well sometimes it’s easier […]
Single Use Plastic…How Can We Cut Down?
In my original Monday Minute post I talked about how one of my resolutions this year was to be kinder to the planet. Well, this post on single use plastic is all about that. It was going to be a quick Monday Minute read…but it turned out there was way too much to say! One […]
A Monday Minute – Why We Need A Little Holiday, Every Day
On our recent ski trip to Austria I was chatting to one of the managers at our hotel. I was saying something along the lines of how wonderful it was to be on holiday. His response? ‘Yes. But you should make a little holiday in your day, every day’. I should probably admit here that […]