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Although living in another country can be a great experience and you will spend mornings wanting to pinch yourself when you wake up to a tropical view, it is not always a smooth passage. You may happily post photos of…
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It was 9pm on a Friday night and we were in the wrong part of town sitting in a car waiting to meet a stranger. “Is this safe?” my husband asks. “We’ll see” was the response from the back of…
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Campari is a drink that I have not seen in the UK since the 1980s. It’s an Italian aperitif with a red colour and the flavour is a bitter, herbal, orangey sweetness. I recall my Aunts enjoying a Campari and…
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My first impressions of St Lucia when I moved here was that it is just so green and lush with magnificent hills everywhere. After the flat arid landscape of Aruba, I felt that I was back in the tropics, despite…
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This is my husband’s story of his experience during and after Hurricane Irma when he was in Tortola. ______________________________ Although I have lived in the Caribbean for four years I had never experienced a hurricane. All that changed in 2017….
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Life as an expat has a few stages that inevitably you will go through. You may go through each stage in order or find that you bounce from one back to the other. Expat life can be a roller coaster…
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How does your accent change when living abroad and do you find that you are treated differently because of your accent? One thing that I have found in being an expat is when I am looking for work to be…
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Moving to an island and adapting to island life can take a while. It may take months or years, but with every island girl there is the moment of self-realisation that you are now an island girl and nothing fazes you…
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A few months into living on the island of Aruba and I am still in awe of the variety of the shops here. For a small island, there are a great assortment of stores. When you are visiting as a…
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We have now just started our third expat move and it occurred to me that the process of moving abroad is now a much easier than our first move, principally aide by technology. Our first expat experience began in 2007…
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