Lifestyle & Culture
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3.3KExpat 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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4.2KUlrike 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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4.6KJackie 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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3.4KExpat 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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4.7KPutin’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...
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6.6KLetícia Batista: ‘My clueless trip to Copenhagen in the middle of a pandemic,’ Pt. 2
(Editor’s note: See Pt. 1 of Letícia’s post here about her ill-fated trip to Copenhagen at the beginning of the pandemic.) Now...
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4.6KLetícia Batista: ‘My clueless trip to Copenhagen in the middle of a pandemic,’ Pt. 1
It all started about six months ago when I received an email with a great deal on tickets to Copenhagen. We bought...
