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Makin’ Pals

28 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by Louise in Travel

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expatriate, friends, Girona, pals

People in Girona often ask us “Why three months in Girona?” True, if we were just visiting landmarks and museums in the city, that would take about three days. While some people travel for art and some for food, we are in it for the people. We stay a long time in order to make relationships that we hope will be enlightening and longstanding. We are curious and communicative by nature and profession; we like to learn about the world through the people that live here. But only if we really like hanging out with them as well.

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So Much Stuff; So Few Boxes

18 Monday Feb 2013

Posted by Louise in Accommodations, Travel

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boxes, expatriate, travel

boxes in our living roomAt last I have something in common with the great novelist Ann Beattie: an insatiable need for free boxes. She too is moving, and writes in the February 17th New York Times: “Boxes are much on the itinerant person’s mind. I brood about lost boxes, boxes I received via UPS — those Zappos boots! — that I stupidly took to the recycling center.”

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Ninety-Days Notice

01 Tuesday Jan 2013

Posted by Tom in Sentiments

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expat, expatriate, travel

drawing of a burning bridge

We gave notice to our apartment manager today, burning our first bridge behind us.

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Don’t Call Us Ex-Patriots

31 Wednesday Oct 2012

Posted by Tom in Sentiments

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expat, expatriate, travel

Photo of an American Flag

We’re “expatriates” (or, more properly, we’re about to be), we’re not “ex-patriots.” We still love our country, but to put “ex” and a hyphen ahead of something implies consummation (or, perhaps, dispatch), like “ex-husband.”

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The Half-Empty Bag

05 Friday Oct 2012

Posted by Tom in Travel

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expat, expatriate, packing, travel

the half-full blue duffel

The optimist claims his cup is “half full.” Usually. But today, this optimist says “half empty.” And it’s not a cup, it’s a bag.

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July in Greece: It’s Official!

01 Monday Oct 2012

Posted by Louise in Accommodations, Silly stuff

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Chania, expat, expatriate, Greece, travel

Tom & Louise with champagne

We’re popping open the champagne tonight because we reserved another apartment today – this one in Chania, on Crete, in Greece, for the month of July, 2013. No, we’ve never been there.

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The Nexus

28 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by Tom in Sentiments

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expat, expat-almanac, expatriate, travel

Title graphic

What a moment in life!

That’s the kind of thing we said when our first child was born, or when we ate our first bite of Duck a l’Orange, or when we did our first hit of acid. (Forget I said that. I admit to misbehaving a bit, and listening to Hendrix, and living ten miles from Ken Kesey, but acid? No. Not acid. Not that I can recall…)

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Anticipation

25 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by Tom in Sentiments

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expat, expatriate, Girona, travel

Frame from Heinz ketchup commercial

Remember that Carly Simon song, “Anticipation”? It was cleverly used in a Heinz ketchup commercial in the late 1970s. It has been running through my head lately.

We…
Can never know about the days to come,
But…
We think about them anyway.

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Bag and Baggage

07 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by Louise in Accommodations

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expat, expatriate, luggage, packing, travel

While Tom writes rhapsodic thoughts about the true meaning of home, I am pondering luggage. He is a poet; I am a Capricorn.

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Home is Where the Head Is

06 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by Tom in Accommodations, Sentiments

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expat, expatriate, Home, serial expat, travel

Child's drawing of a home

We talked this morning about the concept of “home.” If we’re to become serial expats, living here and there for three or six months at a time, will we feel homesickness? And if we feel it, for what home will we feel sick?

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