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11 Jul at 3 PM

Expat Interview With Stephanie, US Expat Living in Paris

Stephanie spent years enhancing women's lives through coaching, yoga and holistic health care methods in San Francisco before leaving it all behind to take a chance on love! She moved to Paris, France to be closer to her French boyfriend in November 2012 and has been chronicling her experiences abroad one glass of wine - and faux pas - at a...
4 Jun at 9 AM

Renovation of a derelict house in Brittany, Expat Interview With Jenny

Jenny and John recently sold up in the UK and moved to a little town in France where they bought a semi derelict house which they plan to convert into a small B&B. With a background in building they intend to complete all the work themselves and live on site. With little knowledge of the language and a headful of ideas, they have kept a...
30 May at 9 AM

British Expat Living in France - Interview With Anneli

Anneli moved to France 6 years ago with her husband. Her love affair with France began some years before when her parents-in-law moved to Gascony and she began to holiday there annually. Having come from a hectic job at MTV, based in London, she felt it was time to change her life and settle somewhere quieter and start a family. She now lives...
23 May at 9 AM

Expat Interview With Jennifer - US expat in Bordeaux, France

Jennifer and her family live in Bordeaux, France. Formerly, a school guidance counselor, Jennifer now writes about her new life and how she is blending her American heritage with the French culture. Life in France is full of surprise opportunities, at times frustrating cultural ways, and everyday parenting situations. They enjoy life with...
22 May at 9 AM

Canadian Expat Living in France - Interview With Crystal

Crystal is an anglophone Canadian expat in France who first came to teach English in a village in the north of France just after graduating university. A month after arriving, she met and later married a handsome Frenchman, and is now living in the Alps with her husband, small dog, big furry cat and two hairless kitties. She's a freelance...
4 Apr at 9 AM

Expat Interview With Tim An Englishman in Bordeaux

Tim is an Englishman based in Bordeaux, south-western France. After moving to the country some 20 years ago, he has gradually worked his way into the system and today his day-job is corporate journalism for an aerospace sector company. In his spare time, Tim visits the region on a vintage yellow bicycle and is on the constant lookout for...
14 Mar at 10 AM

From Texas to Lyon - Meet American Expat Jessica

Jessica was born romanticizing gypsies and nomads, with a love of travel in her heart. This love has taken her on vacation to places like China, Central America and the Middle East, as well as having lived in Mexico, Costa Rica and three different regions in the U.S. She is currently freezing in France, where she hopes to finally find a home...
3 Mar at 5 PM

Ten of the Best Places to Live in France For Expats

France has always been a popular destination for expats, with its beautiful scenery and easy going pace of life it attracts both young and old looking for a new life with improved living standards. Here are some of the more popular towns which attract expats from all over the world due to their low crime rate, low cost of living, enviable...
26 Feb at 9 AM

English Girl Living in Paris - Expat Interview With Emma

Emma, a English girl in her mid-twenties, living in Paris, makes it her personal mission to put her finger in and keep abreast of all the best restaurants, wine bars and cocktail establishments in the city. She also hosts an English-speaking supper club and wine tasting evenings in her apartment on a monthly basis, through her blog, Burnt...
15 Feb at 11 AM

Finding an apartment to rent in Paris - Expat Property

Local Expert Series: Renting a Paris apartment by Megan McGuire You need three things to find an apartment in Paris: 1. A perfect dossier 2. Patience 3. Patience If you’ve got those two things, there is a small chance that eventually you may finally find a closet that someone will rent to you. I’m exaggerating, but ask anyone who...
14 Feb at 9 AM

An Expat Kid - Interview with Daisy Tannenbaum

Daisy Tannenbaum is the precocious twelve-year-old narrator of the blog series MY STUPID JOURNAL, so technically she is a fictional expatriate. After being expelled from school, she is sent to live in Paris with her eccentric Aunt Mill. Mischievous and sardonic, Daisy has an uncanny nose for trouble. She has a decidedly unique take on Paris,...
8 Feb at 12 PM

On se fait un ciné? Going to the movies in Paris

Local Expert Series: Going to movies by Megan McGuire Although you might think there’s nothing “typically French” about going to the movies, it’s one of the most popular activities in the city. With a rate of one screen per 6000 people, Paris has the highest concentration of movie theatres per person in Europe. Sunday evening is...
16 Jan at 9 AM

Canadian Expat With Spanish, Filipina & Chinese Heritage in Paris - Interview With Milsters

Milsters is a Canadian with Spanish, Filipina, and Chinese heritage who has lived in 13 countries on 4 continents - partly due to her parents' professions, partly due to her inner global nomad. She grew up mainly in the deserts of Saudi Arabia where she spent 7 years of her childhood, but has also lived in the Philippines, Hong Kong,...
3 Dec at 1 PM

England to France - Expat Interview With Sarah

Sarah Hague moved to France on a romantic adventure to join a Frenchman and found herself living in the glorious South of France. After 26 years there, she got things nicely organised - her kids, job, hobbies, plus a lovely man who takes her motorbiking on the back of his chunky BMW bike. Sarah loves the life she has there, the boys do too....
3 Dec at 11 AM

Irish Expat in France - Interview With Dermot

Dermot O'Shea was 22 years old, had been working in insurance/banking since leaving school at 17, the Irish economy ("The Celtic Tiger") was booming and, suddenly, he realised that he'd either stay this course for the next 40 years until retirement or else he was to do something - something BIG - with his life upon which he could look back in...
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