A Day at the Questura, Perugia, Italy

By Margaret Leon 

As an American expat in need of residency in Italy, I was forced to subject myself to the torture of waiting in line at the questura in Perugia, to apply for my Permesso di Soggiorno. Before I embarked on this journey, I had to take along many documents for the first application: A 'long stay Visa' was necessary and had to be obtained at the Italian consulate in Boston... read more

State of the Art Surgery in Costa Rica

By Paul Johnson

Costa Rica is well known throughout the world for high quality, low cost health care. Plastic surgery Costa Rica is a very solid choice because of the country’s well equipped modern clinics and hospitals, and medical personnel trained in the finest international teaching centers provides excellent medical service to citizens and foreigners alike... read more

The First Step in your Expatriation Adventure

By Doug Bower

The very first thing you should consider once you've made your mind up where you are going to live overseas might surprise you. The many letters we receive from potential expats always begin with the theme: cost of living. While important, most who contact us in our adopted home of Guanajuato, Mexico, never get past this economic issue. It is as though the economic issue is the most important point in the whole expatriation adventure... read more

It's All In Your Head

By Louanne Bridges

Our health and well being IS all in our heads- according to the natural healers of Africa, India and Korea, as well as many, many other countries. Natural healers and physicians in these countries agree that the mind and body are connected and that illness must be treated this way. When we are hurting or suffering from a condition, pain receptors in the brain send pain to the area. Already the head is effected. Pain and discomfort alter the chemistry in the brain, affecting the ability to heal... read more

Paris: Shakespeare and Co

By Meera Krishnaswamy 

So, you are an aspiring writer and there is a masterpiece inside of you crying to be written. But, you want some solitude, some culture, to be surrounded by books and to find the inspiration to write. But, of course you cannot afford to pay for that privilege. Or are you ready to quit your boring day job in order to write but wonder how to make rent and to eat. You can head to the ‘Shakespeare and co’ bookstore in Paris for all of this and more. It could just change your life... read more

Sending a Child to School in Mexico

By Molly McHugh

You have three basic options for schooling your child in Mexico (on the mainland or on the Baja California Peninsula):  public school, private school or homeschooling.  My personal advice, based upon experience with both private and public school systems on the mainland and in Baja, is this; if your child is bilingual, and speaks Spanish fluently, you have any school in the country available to you, pick and choose.... read more

Teacher, your Chi-Chis is Thick!

By Teri Hofford

My mom stared at me with a blank stare and then started laughing as if I had just told her the funniest joke in the world. “What? What do you mean, Busan, South Korea? Next week?” 24 hours prior to this outburst, I was just sitting at my mom’s computer contemplating how I was going to travel the world with my best friend Stephanie... read more

Traveller's Secrets: Upgrades

By Samantha Honey

Ask anyone: the day of flight upgrades are over. Nobody gets bumped up anymore. Not only this, it’s impossible to get into airline lounges unless you’re flying business class, to get your hotel room upgraded to the executive floor… and those speed-lanes at immigration are for rock-stars only, right?... read more

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