Posts By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey
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9.8KExpat EssentialsUlrike Lemmin-Woolfrey reveals her essential lessons-learned living in Paris for five years
Ahh, the City of Light. The romance, the beauty, the history. Who would not want to be living in Paris? As soon...
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Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey in Paris: ‘Vacation’ is just an excuse to scout out my next expat destination
Once upon a time, when I still travelled normally (when I still travelled!), I did things everybody does on holiday: I went...
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Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey in Paris: A serial expat rates life in seven countries, three continents and two hemispheres
As I sit under lockdown in Paris, I was supposed to be contemplating a potential international move. After all, with Fernweh (wanderlust)...
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Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey in Paris: ‘I Will Survive’ becomes our theme song as France extends lockdown
Last Monday night, an unprecedented 35 million-plus people across France watched as President Macron took to the TV screens at two minutes...
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Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey: What I learnt about renting an apartment in Paris
Renting an apartment when the move to Paris was imminent should have been be a doddle, really. After all, I had spent...
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Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey in Paris: A personal Brexit story about our German/British family
When you are German with an English husband and live and work in France, you can’t help but feel European through and...
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‘Tossed by the waves, but not sunk’: What it’s like to be an expat in Paris during France’s longest strike
Locals and long-term expats in Paris still reminisce about the seemingly endless transport strike in the winter of 1995, or even the...
