Defining your New Normal

Having a plan for where your income will come from, after you move to live oversees, has to be fairly high on your list of things to do…

Keeping in touch with friends and family ‘back home’

Fast forward a few months from my last chapter to New Years Day 2015. It was 4 degrees outside, we had a hundred unopened boxes due to…

I have loved travel for most of my life. And when I say travel, I don’t mean holidays. I mean what I would call real travel. Not cocooned…

We’d already tried living in France for 3 months back in 2011, we loved the place, we loved the climate, the people, the chilledness (not…

Australia has some of the most stringent immigration laws of most countries. And rightly so. You don’t just turn up and live in the “lucky…

Approaching another birthday, my 39th, I had made one big change to my life in the UK. Rather than being envious of colleagues doing the…

After we got home from our 3-month sabbatical in Quillan, on American Independence Day 2011, I’ll never forget Fran reminding me (via text…

It was love at first sight, if you believe such a thing exists. I knew from the very first moments that my life would revolve around her in…