Category: Life
30 June 2022
Bilingual speech and language therapist, Johanna Pino Grisales, supports English-speaking families in understanding how to address speech ...
08 June 2021
School holidays in France are from early July until 1st September 2021. There are a whole range of exciting summer camps in Paris for kids ...
08 June 2021
It's that time of year again when parents gear up for the 13 week summer holiday with the children. There are summer camps in Barcelona ...
25 May 2021
Expat or immigrant? Flexpatriate or inpatriate? Global nomad or citizen of the world? The term 'expat' is outdated argues MumAbroad founder ...
23 November 2020
Producing the highest quality handcrafted rugs, preserving age-old rug making traditions, and treating artisans with dignity and respect: ...
17 November 2020
In July 2018 Katie Thomas took a leap of faith and moved to Sitges, just south of Barcelona, with her husband and 2 young daughters. Her ...
27 March 2020
On Thursday 12th March mum and entrepreneur, Deborah Gray, dropped her 2 children (7 and 10 years old) off at school and went to work like ...
09 March 2020
"Ever since I was little I used to spend after school time at my mom’s studio first watching and then started helping out with the ...
07 November 2019
Estelle Liotard is a seasoned content writer and a blogger, with years of experience in different fields of marketing. She is a senior ...
28 March 2019
Eating out in Milan is a delight: there are so many places where you can eat and drink very well that sometimes it's hard to make a choice. ...
26 February 2019
Jess Watson had her life turned upside down when she discovered that at the age of 45 she was pregnant with twins. At that time, her eldest ...
25 January 2019
Chris Foerster is a digital marketer at Fremont College and founder of the website My News Tips. Here here he talks about the ...
14 December 2018
You have always been interested in keeping fit but when and why did you decide to turn your passion into a business? I’ve moved a lot ...
14 December 2018
Tips for small business owners from Chris Foerster, digital marketer at Fremont College & founder of the website My News ...
27 November 2018
Yasmina Old lives north of Girona in the Alt Emporda region. She runs workshops empowering people to take care of their health naturally, ...
21 November 2018
We are a non-profit association founded in September 2018 in Barcelona by 12 EU Citizens from 9 different countries living in Catalonia, ...
23 July 2018
It takes a village to raise a child, it has very often been said. In Spain, I’d argue it takes a city. A country, even. And just what ...
06 June 2018
Penelope Olij-Perez, co-founder of Mimoun relocation agency, believes what truly differentiates an excellent relocation expert from simply ...
28 May 2018
So. It’s been six months now since the start of this adventure, and a journey of life-changing extremes. To explain: for those of you who ...
09 May 2017
Jill Stribling has a B.A. in Child Development and Psychology, a Master's degree in Education and specialty in Literacy and Language Arts ...
26 April 2017
I told some friends I was writing a blog post about the Maresme. I asked them to give me just one thing that they loved about the area. ...
26 April 2017
Hi, my name is Onke Truijen and my husband Glenn and our two kids, Zwaantje (little Swan) and Wester (wind from the west) moved from ...
24 April 2017
Teenage life in the Italian countryside How would you describe the area you live in? We live in a very small village ...
06 April 2017
Sleep deprived and desperate, Jessica Rojas searched the internet for information and read every book she could find about baby sleep ...
10 March 2017
Emmy & Enzo’s Journey Every year hundreds of thousands of families emigrate abroad from Britain alone and last year my son ...
21 February 2017
Emilio Sanchez American School Barcelona Campus What accreditations does the school have? ES International School is ...
15 February 2017
I grew up in Torino. I met my husband in Italy and moved to England with him when I was nineteen. I dropped out of university in Italy and ...
13 February 2017
Dominique is Beaver Leader at 1st Madrid British Scouts When life coach and “Mama Motivator” Kelly Pietrangeli from ...
16 January 2017
Anja Cucinotta, coach, trainer and writer has a mission to encourage women and mothers like you to live a life that you feel fully and ...
13 December 2016
Tania Landin is the co-founder of Around the World Stories, a company offering original audio stories to teach children about other ...
23 November 2016
It was a picturesque spring day where the sun warms you through while the air lifts your soul a bit. You breathe it in – this moment – ...
19 September 2016
----- Cigna Global offer a high level of care facilities for expats in over 200 countries and territories, with the flexibility to choose ...
23 August 2016
The five-year-old who inspired this post. Trial and Error Are a Good Thing When you arrive in a new country with a new language, the first ...
13 July 2016
Milli, originally from Northamptonshire in the UK came to Spain 5 years ago. She has settled in a village just outside of Barcelona with ...
22 April 2016
Looking for legal guidance on Spanish or international matters? Advice on property, insurance, tax, family, trademarks & patents, ...
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 ...
17 June 2015
Navigating Paris with small children in tow can be quite the challenge. Just ask any Parisian parent who’s ever had to carry a stroller ...
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 ...
13 May 2015
According to the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (the Federal Employment Agency), one third of people running their own businesses in Germany are ...
30 April 2015
In 2021 Adrienne contributed a chapter to #LivingTheDream: Expat life stripped bare. Grief, loneliness, Brexit, motherhood, identity, ...
26 February 2015
Settling into a new country takes time, learning the social pleasantries and cultural ways is part of the process of integration. I have ...