For the months leading up to our vacation in Sicily, my husband and I asked everyone we knew if they...

A friend here in Paris was entertaining her in-laws recently, visiting from New Mexico, and I joined them for a...

You need a good lawyer for your visa renewal In France. Period. My family and I have just finished the...

It’s finally happening… the world is finally, slowly opening back up again. Here in France, museums and monuments have been...

It might be easy to get on board with the idea of retiring overseas... But it’s not as easy to...

Don’t judge a country by its food. Or, at least, not by the first dish you experience. On my first...

Picture a chain of historic and charming small towns strung together by a single-lane highway, people walking or biking along,...

Welcome to In Focus: Europe. My name is Kat Kalashian, and I've been an expat in Europe for over 12 years...

It’s been one of those weeks… From multiple household-wide illnesses to minor annoyances, major frustrations, and serious disappointments, it feels...

As I celebrated my daughter’s first holiday season, the idea of legacy was strong in my mind. As all new...

I hear lots of parents and grandparents bemoaning the fact that kids’ lives are so regimented these days… how they...

While some countries make residency difficult and painful to acquire (ahem, France), others make it exceedingly easy. They want foreign...

The benefits of spending time in water are well documented, as are the ways that simply living near water is...

Last week my husband and I successfully renewed our residency permits here in France, and, boy, are we relieved to...

Out of this big old world of 195 countries, how in the world do you figure out where in the...

Fellow reader Dianne R.—a full-time expat in Mexico—shared this note last week on our Overseas Living Club page... "My husband and...

I feel lucky that my profession allows me some escapism… even if merely mental these days. As we go about...

In Abruzzo, our top choice for the best lifestyle value in Italy, you can choose from hundreds of modern cities,...

Abruzzo is fantastically cheap. You can eat like royalty here on a pittance. So much (pasta... wine... oil...) is produced...

A 12-year expat in Las Terrenas, Larry Stroup is a central figure in the expat social scene in this small...