I sometimes wonder if I am absolutely nuts, I mean what kind of person sells everything to go on a gap year with little kids and simply doesn’t come back for ten years and thinks, ‘Everything will work out just fine?’ Oh I guess that would be me! When we left Vancouver for the prospect…
Seperating from our family pet is probably the hardest thing that we will have to do moving home to Canada. At first we found Elvis a new home with a lovely family with a little girl who already has a cat she loves, but also knows Elvis from taking lessons here at our home. She…
The picture of me that I posted with this blog post, is of our weekly walk around Margaret Island. During quarantine it is one of the only places left that we can find some solace. It is in the ritual of it, as much as the exercise of it; breathing in the fresh air, taking…
Hello! I am a teacher. Over the course of 10 years I have been teaching kids to save our planet or at least squeezing it into every element of English class that I can! I encouraged them to take less than 2 minutes showers, use energy efficient & long lasting light bulbs, use water efficient…
It is time! I am turning the blog, and all ten years of journally, into a book! I promise to share the good, the bad and the ugly! Even the silly and stupid things, like the time I accidentally told my friend’s husband I loved him, inplace of telling him I loved his wine. Very…
Ok so we put our house on the market. Now what? I know it seems strange because according to our Hungarian life and Hungarian standards we are doing well. But what is lacking is balance. The equilibrium between work and life is swayed, heavily loaded with too much work which was the exact same reason…
Now that we are selling our home here in Solymar I am reminded of all the reasons why we bought it in the first place. I have serious home love! I first spotted this three story home online when we still lived in France back in 2016. It was listed on multiple real estate sites…
It is time to tell our New Year’s resolution. We have put our house in Solymar Hungary, just outside the capital city of Budapest, on the market! Hopefully, this will be our last international move! We are moving ‘home’ to Canada. There is the link to our listing over here =====>>>>>> And to our apartments…
There comes a time in every expat’s life when you feel the need to go back home to the comforts of what you grew up with, whatever that means, wherever that is or feels like to you. If only to see if you have made the right decision by moving away in the first place….
Are you in Budapest with children and wondering what you should do? Well you are in luck! I have compiled a list of the top twenty things to do with children in and around Budapest! Our family runs a language summer homestay program and our activities for our students are so varied that everyone can…