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18/11/2011
YOUR LANGUAGE SURVIVAL MINI-GUIDE
Expats who leave their home country to pursue a career or lifestyle in another country face various issues ranging from immigration restrictions to homesickness and language barriers. These can be felt particularly acutely at certain important personal times. While the only cure for homesickne...
My name is Federico and I am 33 years old. Since a child I have always had two aims in my life: to become a videogame programmer and to undertake a round the world trip. I graduated in computer sciences and lately I have been working in one of the leading multinational companies in videogames develo...
30/10/2011
MY INCOMPLETE DREAM
I’m a 49, very sporty Italian woman, a nature lover since I was a child. I've grown up and always lived in Milan, and after college and university, I went working in a bank. My life has been enriched by my passions for sports and travels, but I've always spent it with a deep mel...
3/10/2011
A "MILANESE" LIVING DOWN SOUTH IN THE US
Originally from Milan, Italy Elena moved to Dallas quite a while ago starting a new life in the lovely, warm and sunny Texas city. Her choice to move there and everything that followed happened by chance. But, as they say, life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. And that is e...
MIA HEBIB: GROWING UP IN THE US BETWEEN WAR AND ARTMia Hebib is a Bosnia-born jewelry artist, now fully entangled in Brooklyn’s hip streets and atmosphere. Before strutting the streets of the borough after the bridge, Mia has lived in Atlanta and Savannah, where she had moved at a ...
Part of the charm of living in the Dominican Republic is how different it is from your country of origin. Walk down the street in any small village or town and you will be amazed at how many people appear to know you. They don’t, of course, all know you but they will all greet you and smile &n...
26/7/2011
PORTUGAL (LISBON)
Portugal is situated to the West of Spain and possesses the most Westerly point in Continental Europe, Cabo de Roca. Luis de Camões a Sixteenth Century Poet described it as the place: “where the land ends and the sea begins”.And it is perhaps this fascination with the beginning of...
4/7/2011
LIVING IT UP IN GOA
When Sarah Fredrickson moved to India all she had was a suitcase, she had just finished her degree and was about to embark on a year out. Once the idea popped into her head that was it, she was off, despite family and friends questioning her sanity. After deciding that she was leaving all she had to...
Growing up in Toronto, Canada I was accustomed to a life of busy streets, cold weather and standard steady living. People there live rather conservative lives, which while not lacking joy, music and other fun, which tend to follow very set narratives encompassing university, marriage and career orie...
I first came to the north of Italy on a holiday in Lake Como. This was with my parents at a young age yet I absolutely fell in love with the area: the gorgeous food, stunning views and pleasant pace of life fit me perfectly. This was only a week long sojourn, so it passed all too quickly and ...
1/7/2011
AN OLD BIRD MIGRATES TO MAJORCA
When my husband and I retired we took advantage of the deals on Palma Nova holidays and went to Majorca for the week. My husband had just turned sixty and we decided that we needed a treat, so with the holiday booked we took off. I had never been to Majorca before and didn’t know what to...
When Judy Kaufmann decided she wanted to be an artist, she moved from Chile to Barcelona, one of the most energetic, vibrant and creative places in the whole world. There she learned the basics and started a career as an illustrator. She still lives there, biking around the streets of Barça a...
Kristina Sabaite was born in Kaunas (Lithuania) ad when she was 25 years old, she moved to Galicia, Spain where she started a new life. She is now living in a small and beautiful town called Tui, with her husband Karolis and their beloved dog Chino.Kristina is a children’s book illustrator and...
Ola Kozlowska comes from Szczecin, a Polish city very close to the German border.At age 19 she moved to Berlin to study cinema and italian. At age 26 she went living in Torino, Italy, for a year. Now she is back in her beloved Berlin, living her dream, immersed in other cult...