BEING AN EXPAT MAD OR COURAGEOUS? Despite the news, the economy, and the banks; people move to southern France everyday. France is among the top ten places in the world to live. What makes France so special and are we crazy or courageous for making the move? Of course the retired expat dollar stretches a…
“Any serious shift to more sustainable society has to include gender equality.” Helen Clark Women still earn 80% of their male counterpart’s salaries. Equality in the workplace has made progress but it is far from a level playing field. What do women bring to the table that men don’t? Perhaps women have a greater understanding of…
How we learn French- By Eva Hamori After nearly two years living in France, I find the confidence to ask the baker for bread, can understand most of what I hear and sometimes, I even respond. Some days you cannot shut me up and other days I struggle to find the simplest words. I guess…
Daniel Thursday August 11, 2011 I have been going to:a store down stairs called DIOFA ABC. We have ice cream everyday. We also go for long walks around Budapest. What I like the most about Budapest is a river called the Duna which cuts Budapest in half. We live on the Pest…
We bought our beautiful apartment in Elizabeth city, the Jewish quarter of Budapest in the same building where my mom was born and raised back in 2007. It was for a vacation spot instead of inconveniencing our family every time we visited and a rental income to subsidize the mortgage on…
“I wanted to walk the inner life of every Man I saw, look at the world through their eyes.” Aleksandr Kuprin Home. What does it mean to you? For me it is where my family gets tucked into their beds at night. It matters not the country, or place, but who. The sounds of our little…
Keep in mind, Alfonz went to France with his best friend Adrian on a motorbike tour in 2000, long before he and I were together. When he returned from his adventures, he shared them with me, at the time he was my dear friend. I had never seen him so happy. For the kids and…
La Voie Verte – Capestang – Cruzy La Voie Verte is a 12 km long bike lane created in 2014 between Capestang and Cruzy offering pedestrians, and cyclists a safe no traffic pathway to explore the celebrated countryside of the Languedoc region. They have converted the old railway track by filling it with soil…
A little YouTube video on the event! Closing in on the one-year anniversary of the Graffiti Jam held in Capestang last April, I thought it fitting to tell you about the cool event we were not here for. Walking through Capestang, there’s graffiti painted along the drainage system throughout the village. Sides of the storm…
“The very substance of ambition is merely the shadow of a dream.” William Shakespeare The question becomes, ‘What dream are we pursuing now?” Scratch, scratch… itchy feet. Some of us are more ambitious than others, or you can say some of us are only content with a project in the fold, a dream in the works,…