Lifestyle, Jobs and Life Choices

Expat, author and writers’ mentor, Jo Parfitt, tells you howMany people decide to go and live abroad and of those, many also harbour dreams of writing a book about their experiences. You may have heard of some of them? Melinda and Robert Blanchard wrote A Trip to Beach about their experiences ...

They say cooks are born, not made. And it seems that forty years ago, Bruno Barbieri came into the world with what he calls a ‘gourmet’s feeling’ Internationally renowned, after working in the United States, the Caribbean, South America, he has decided to settle in Verona. In an in...

“Looking back makes it possible to move ahead, because looking back revives the imagination of the archetypical child, fons et origo, either in a state of complete helplessness or facing the future that lies ahead. Rebirth would be a word without sense if not for the implicit dissolution, deat...

 Expatriate living – exciting, confusing, frustrating, rewarding, lonely... ?Imagine that the opportunity to move abroad presents itself; you feel a mix of emotions; uncertainty, fear, excitement, anticipation and sadness at leaving loved ones and careers behind.These mixed feelings are a...

Many of us spend the majority of our time making plans, attending meetings, fulfilling various obligations and bureaucratic requirements, commuting long stretches, and, at the end of the day, we complain about the lack of time we have. We watch the years fly by and never take charge of our lives. To...

INSIDE THE WORLD:  By land and by sea by Dario Sorgato   June 16.It’s always June.  When I depart.It was June 13 when I was born.  And what a departure! It’s June each time I become a year older.Three days later, I’m born again.  In a part of the world far ...

Living in the country, interview with Maxi Herren on the abandoned boroughs of Spain. INTERVIEW WITH MAXI HERRENWe begin March with an interview with Maxi Herren, a Spaniard who has been working since 2007 on researching and cataloguing the numerous Spanish boroughs which are currently in a state o...

“Mum, I miss the road.” From an eight year old the statement is a bit disturbing. Sitting in front of a cup of hot milk and biscuits that brighten up her homework my daughter looks at me with a very serious expression on her face, “It was much more fun when I studied with you.&rdqu...

Life as a skipper: pros and cons of a fascinating profession by Andrea Cerchiaro. I’ve always had a passion for the sea and everything connected to it. As a child and whilst growing up I have also felt the need to have the sea close by, as if it were a person who, by being by my side made me f...

FULLTIMERS, By Marco Pelizza The phenomenon Fulltimers: living and travelling the world in a campervanThe phenomenon began and developed in Great Britain, and it was there that the name for this type of person was chosen: Fulltimers. They are now spreading though in France, Holland and Germany.In It...