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BC’s capital city Victoria; oceans apart from ordinary
Saturday first thing in the morning, the instant we got Angelina’s negative PCR test results, we were already packed and ready to go to Victoria for the day! We drove the 1h23 minutes south towards the province’s capital city. We first stopped off in Duncan, my hometown, to see our family house. It was strange…
First day, new home
I guess it is time to change the blog’s name from “My Expat Life” to “My New Island Life” because I am officially not an expat anymore! It is funny, some actually believed I should change the name when we moved to Hungary, saying I was not an expat anymore, however I had never lived…
How do you turn your blog into a book? My Expat Life website is now the Gap Decade novel.
How do you take an eleven-year-old blog, equaling 1,000 posts and around 1,400,000 words, and turn it into a 150-page book someone would like to read? Well, that is the question I have been contemplating since coming home to Canada. Getting my head wrapped around which stories to tell has been challenging. To decide which…
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Hungarian Sweet Tooth
This year’s national winner, the Millet Cake with Kecskemét Apricot! In the 1950’s my Nagymama would pack up my mom and uncle dressed in their finest clothes to walk down the 12 flight of stairs. She would put mom in the giant pram, and her brother Petu would hold the handle and they would make their way down…
How to Airlift a Palm Out of Your Yard
It started with a vision of our family splashing around in a pool, but where? Our garden is far too small unless we take out the shed and the giant palm tree. Last week we said goodbye to the shed, thanks to Mike! Progress! Let The Renovations Begin! Today, a parent from Daniel’s handball took the…
