Category: Blog
07 June 2016
Italia: founding terra of our civilization and a rich historical melting pot, the bearer of divine wine and fabulous cuisine and a global ...
07 June 2016
Sophie Russell Ross blogs about motherhood and expat life in Granada. She is the founder of GranadaSpain.co.uk, a destination website that ...
18 May 2016
Jeanne has a background in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and worked for 11 years at one of the National Autism Society ...
06 May 2016
Amelia hunter founder of babysleep solutions talks about her journey. The importance of a routine Starting out I grew up in ...
28 April 2016
Millie Slavidou is a British writer and translator, and the mother of a bilingual child, living and working in Greece. She writes about ...
13 April 2016
One mother's story about loss That question…….. it comes in a multitude of forms; 'how many children do you have?' or 'is ...
30 March 2016
Hannah left behind a UK career in corporate event management and moved to France in 2000 to run a boat charter business with her husband ...
30 March 2016
Audrey Reeder is Headteacher of The Olive Tree School in Sant Pere de Ribes, just outside of Barcelona. She works with a dedicated team of ...
17 March 2016
One mum shares her experiences good and bad of bringing up her daughters abroad. It can be scary.. Looking back, sometimes ...
07 February 2016
World-schooling, edventuring, life-learning, whatever you call it, more parents are doing it – if the proliferation of blogs and books by ...
21 January 2016
Michelle Damiani is an American writer and psychologist. Her book about her family’s life in Italy, Il Bel Centro: A Year in the ...
12 January 2016
Jennie Dalgren is a pre-school and primary teacher from Sweden with a passion to create and learn. Along with serial entrepreneur Linus ...
30 December 2015
A native of Madrid, art historian Almudena Cros founded Across Madrid in July 2014. Across Madrid offers eleven different walking tours ...
17 December 2015
A native of Madrid, art historian Almudena Cros founded Across Madrid in July 2014, here she talks about Paris and babies. How easy ...
15 December 2015
Perinatal Psychologist, doula and reflexologist Alba del Cid talks to MumAbroad about her work and her belief in promoting preventive ...
14 December 2015
Josie McCoy graduated from the MA Fine Art course at Central St Martin's in 1999. Since then she has had solo exhibitions in London, ...
02 December 2015
Going home for Christmas - or not It’s a difficult question to answer, if we stay in Italy then it’s just the four of us, ...
30 November 2015
Looking for somewhere to go with family and friends. Enjoy some of our recommendations. In and around the cities- places to enjoy ...
23 November 2015
I've been trying to write this post for a few days I've been trying to write this post for a few days now but to be honest, I ...
20 November 2015
With an almost overwhelming selection of reputable International and Public schools across Spain, knowing where to begin your search can ...
16 November 2015
Caroline Knorr is Common Sense Media's parenting editor. This article was first published in Common Sense ...
26 October 2015
Spain is one of those wondrously easy places when you have kids in tow. The folk here just love them, and because they are properly ...
26 October 2015
Learn Spanish with hundreds of language schools to choose from in the capital city, Madrid, it can be overwhelming to decide which is the ...
23 October 2015
Michelle Damiani is an American writer and psychologist. Her book about her family’s life in Italy, Il Bel Centro: A Year in the ...
15 October 2015
We chatted to Fabian, a Swedish teenager, who at the age of 13, had relocated from Sweden to Spain with his family. They moved to Sitges, a ...
18 September 2015
Dani writes her own blog on parenting in Spain, here she talks about her transition. Parenting in a new country I left my ...
26 July 2015
Lying in the heart of Spain, Madrid doesn’t have a coastline so it has had to come up with some clever substitutes for families to while ...
23 July 2015
Looking for a place to celebrate your kids birthday out of the home? Here are some recommended venues in Madrid. Inside and outdoor ...
07 July 2015
Michelle Damiani is an American writer and psychologist. Her book about her family’s life in Italy, Il Bel Centro: A Year in the ...
02 July 2015
There are lots of wonderful birth stories but there are also quite a few that don’t go quite to plan. My story is one of those. When ...
24 June 2015
One mum talks about her challenges of moving to Madrid with children and trying to make the right choices. Family adaptation to life ...
16 June 2015
Last week I went to see my son ‘graduate’. When I say graduate. I mean the transition from infants school to primary school. A big deal ...
19 May 2015
When we move abroad, our languages move with us. Many parents wonder about their children becoming multilingual, or engaging in new ways of ...
14 May 2015
MumAbroad founder Carrie Frais lost her dad Roger to esophageal cancer in March 2019. He was diagnosed with the disease in the summer of ...
30 April 2015
In 2021 Adrienne contributed a chapter to #LivingTheDream: Expat life stripped bare. Grief, loneliness, Brexit, motherhood, identity, ...
30 April 2015
Carrie Jaxon, born and bred in Alabama, has been living in Madrid for nearly eight years and believed she had adjusted pretty well to the ...
13 April 2015
British-born Adrienne Walder spent her formative years in London scaling the career ladder at notorious multi-national ...
10 April 2015
“This is the first survey of its kind in Europe, solely focusing on mothers from the international community” comments Carrie Frais, ...
26 February 2015
English teacher turned story teller extraordinaire, Sherry, talks to MumAbroad about the importance of reading to our children from a young ...
01 February 2015
Carrie Frais is the founder of MumAbroad, and also of FiG Communications a creative and copywriting agency. She spent 15 years working in ...
28 January 2015
Fleur moved from the UK after giving up a much-loved career to bring up her children abroad. After initially missing their old life, and ...
19 January 2015
Elizabeth Heath is an American-born writer, editor and mom. She mostly grew up in Florida. Since 2009 she has been based in a ...
08 January 2015
HENhaus is a volunteer organisation of expat wives and women welcoming English speaking newcomers in the area os Herzogenaurach, Erlangen ...
08 January 2015
Valerie's Story I had a mad crush on Sarkozy. No. But I did have a mad mad crush on France that started when I studied in Oxford ...
08 January 2015
The Positive Birth Movement in Germany Founded by Milli Hill in 2012 The Positive Birth Movement was founded in October ...
08 January 2015
Liz Edmunds shares her experience in Varese. Liz's Story We are used to moving as my husband is in the British Army; my ...
03 December 2014
Fleur moved from the UK after giving up a much-loved career to bring up her children abroad. After initially missing their old life, and ...
27 November 2014
Lou Melotte, mum, entrepreneur, teacher and long time resident of Barcelona and Sitges, recalls travelling with her young children ...