Lifestyle & Culture
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741Letícia Batista: Will the new post-coronavirus ‘normal’ mean the end of hugs, affection and the human touch?
A good friend of mine got me addicted to “MasterChef” so that I just cannot miss one single episode. One of my...
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3.7KDispatches needs contributors who can capture the expat lifestyle (updated)
Fellow expats, we need help. Lots of help with our expat lifestyle website, and now more than ever as Europe emerges from...
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1.6KSarah Nagaty in Lisbon: Why toxic positivity will not help us cope with the pandemic
As an Egyptian living in Portugal, I am closely following the situation in two different countries on two different continents. My social...
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1.1KInka Piegsa-Quischotte: Does Spain have a grip on the coronavirus crisis? We’re about to find out ….
The government tries. They try hard. But only the next few weeks will show if they succeed, because Spain has arrived at...
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969Expat Essentials: Sweden is open, but should you visit? Here are the facts
(Editor’s note: Terry Boyd also contributed to this post on Sweden.) At the moment, Sweden is one of the few countries in...
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1.9KUlrike 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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1.9KJackie Harding: Three new destinations, three happy returns as I plan post-pandemic travel
Travel seems so unrealistic at this stage of the global coronavirus crisis, and I’m, as I am sure are others, yearning to...
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1.1KExpat Essentials: New Splitcha app will let you shop online in any country
Okay, the pandemic has you trapped in a country far from home and you’re running out of stuff. The stores are closed....
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938Calum Nicholson: Of course, we should do everything to stop coronavirus. But maybe …
(Editor’s note: This post on the ethical issues posed by coronavirus measures originally appeared in The Economic Times. It’s reposted here with...
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1.8KPutin’s People: Russian expat ‘journalist’ depicts host Netherlands as a dystopian hellhole
One of the weirder expat phenomena are expats who’ve come to free and affluent European countries such as the Netherlands from oppressive...
