Lifestyle & Culture
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1.4KExpat Essentials: Lynne Evans’s expat guide to moving to Athens
Thinking of moving to Greece? It might be that you have become disillusioned with the country in which you currently live and...
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1.3KDigital Nomad Beth Hoke: Skip the hotel and take Europe’s overnight trains
Traveling by trains in Europe is a wonderful thing. No need to arrive two hours early. No extra baggage fees. No baggage...
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33.9KDear Brits: This is what it’s like to be a non-EU citizen
(Editor’s note: We’re reposting “Dear Brits” – one of our best-read posts – on 29 March 2019, the original Brexit date, to...
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2.1KNancy Church in Italy: How the anti-Mafia movement made me love Palermo
After studying the history of art and architecture of Sicily for two weeks in Taormina, I was excited to set out and...
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1.8KKalina Varbanova in Bulgaria: In Eastern Europe, 20-something guys see ‘St. Putin’ saving them from the West
(Editor’s note: Dispatches is dedicated to freedom of movement and the global mobility of talent. To ensure that freedom, we have to...
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837Joanna Storie in Latvia: ‘Watching Brexit play out with a morbid sense of fascination’
Theoretically, on the evening of 29 March or later – depending on whether the European Union grants an extension of Article 50...
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3.6KJoanna Storie: Living the dream in rural Latvia includes alpacas, fast internet
The first question anyone asks us is, “Why are we, two Brits, in Latvia?” to which the answer is, “Why not?” I...
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2.4KTerry Boyd: Ten reasons I’m in love with Rotterdam (until I fall for the next sexy European city)
(Editor’s note: We just made Rotterdam the No. 1 city for expats on our annual list. So we thought it good timing...
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6.2K2019 edition: Dispatches’ list of the five best cities in Europe for expats
We’re posting our 2019 list of the best cities for expats 26 days from what looks like a no-deal Brexit. In the...
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4.6KJackie Harding in Lisbon: An expat travel pro’s guide to Europe’s trendiest city
Lisbon is becoming more popular as a city break than many of its neighbors due to its good value and its growing...
