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Imagine waking up every day and thinking: I love my life. Imagine sunshine pouring in through picture windows…waking you with its warmth, after a cool night’s sleep, rays glinting on calm, pale blue water, just beyond a green expanse. You step out onto your balcony to stretch and enjoy the fresh, clean ocean air. You can start your day with a dip in your pool...
Sometimes a place just sticks with you. It has a way of getting into your heart and soul and refuses to let you go. France was that kind of place for Patty Sadauskas. A former CEO and director of credit unions in Kansas City and St. Louis, Patty, like many others before her, fell in love with France while visiting the country. She took several trips there in the late 90’s...
Jessica Ramesch, who has been living in Panama for over 17 years, is seeing the country with new eyes having recently moved from the capital, Panama City, to a sea-view condo in the beach zone of Coronado.
We’re no strangers to Mexican beach towns. We’ve been living on the Pacific Coast, in vivacious Puerto Vallarta, for the last six months. There we get to watch the sun set into the sapphire-blue Bay of Banderas. And if the timing is right, spy a humpback whale showing off its best Herculean dive. But we wanted to check out one of Mexico’s other popular beach towns...
In the summer of 2017, Lea returned to England to visit his parents. While he was in Europe, he decided to take a vacation from his perpetual vacation and volunteer at Estacíon Inglesa, an English-language immersion program in the south of Spain. Estacíon Inglesa brings together adult professional Spaniards who are learning English...
As is history. Square-mile for squaremile, Wales is home to more castles than anywhere on the planet. Most of them date from the 12th to 15th centuries, built from the dense limestone underlying this compact, beguiling land (Caernarfon and Beaumaris castles are just two that are well-preserved examples which you can visit and tour).
"We winter over in the Caribbean.” “We spend three months a year in the south of France.” “We escape to our place in Mexico when it gets too cold at home.” That may sound like the bragging of a well-heeled set, but you’d be surprised at how accessible—and affordable—a part-time overseas getaway can be. A full-time move abroad can feel like a step too...
They make the mistakes so you don’t have to. And you’d be hard-pressed to find a more savvy group of voyagers—which is why we asked a seasoned collection of them to share their best tips, tricks, and secrets for traveling better and saving time, trouble, and money along the way.
This week, the podcast features International Living contributor Kathleen Evans, an experienced world traveler who fled the corporate rat race of her native Texas and now spends most of her year Tamarindo, Costa Rica.
When the autumn leaves fall and the winter air starts to nipping at your nose, it’s only natural to start thinking of log fires, and dream of wandering one of Europe’s many German-inspired Christmas markets. What many people don’t realize is that even in Spain, in the land of jamon and tempranillo, you can find these amazing and festive markets...