Expat experience

How to live the French dream: Visit, move, live, study, work in France: Stories about frustrations, achievements & celebrations.

23 01, 2025

Moving to France: Finding my toddler-like footing in always-enchanting France

By |2025-01-24T21:41:19+11:00Jan 23, 2025|3 Comments

Moving to France: With my sense of wonder heightened, I began the chapter I define as “my second childhood.” I’d be role-playing as a toddler this time—and a French one at that!

1 01, 2025

My Days in Paris: Anything but ordinary

By |2025-01-05T10:49:12+11:00Jan 1, 2025|0 Comments

Hammam in Paris: It’s an almost mystical experience without the hymns, ritual god-eating, and guilt. Sometimes called Moorish or Turkish baths, the hammam is a ritual that moves the client through ever-increasing temperatures and periods of relaxation, treatment, and socialization.

19 04, 2024

France: What’s a Runaway Wife? How I decided to leave home, family and friends to end my life in France

By |2024-04-23T07:41:46+10:00Apr 19, 2024|1 Comment

Runaway Wife: After 40 years of making my living by writing and editing, I decided if this place I now call home is a good enough subject for the writers in Paris before me, I should give it a try.

18 04, 2024

Paris is Always Worth it – wherein a young writer begins to question just exactly what he’s doing in Paris – Part 2/3

By |2024-04-19T06:55:37+10:00Apr 18, 2024|0 Comments

Paris is always worth it but I was unmoored in Paris teaching English to bankers and insurance clerks.

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