Living Abroad

Growing up in Australia and America, English was the norm. We were half-heartedly taught the basics of our choice of language in school but unless you proved to be a pretty passionate and dedicated student, it was easily disregarded in exchange for a more “practical” subject like maths, science, etc. …

by Lis of GlassasDiamonds.com I’m an outlier in the ‘travel bloggers’ group, an expat as opposed to a pure traveller. I used to travel for work, for family since we span two continents and for the deep adventure of it but now, most of my travel is about maintaining relationships. …

I also thought about titling this post ‘The Goldilocks Travel Conundrum – Where the F*ck is Home?” I have always been a city girl. I spent most of my childhood in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, picking blackberries on the Burke Gilman Trail during the blissful two months of summer in …