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Jason arrived in Querétaro in January 2022, and has enjoyed scouting both the city and the surrounding area. He is a videographer and film editor who documents his discoveries and experiences on his own popular YouTube channel. He says, “I take videos of the city and my experiences abroad. I usually spend two days a week filming and the rest of the week editing.
How do I love thee, dear Ohrid? I honestly can't count the ways. But suffice to say that my three months stay here last year wasn't enough, so I'm back for another 90 days. Of the hundreds of cities and towns I've visited (and 41 countries so far), Ohrid is in my top 10, hands down.
Five years ago I was living quietly in a small 1,100-square-foot home just outside my native hometown of Austin, Texas. I was doing my utmost to live simply in contrast the rapidly increasing consumer culture of America. The mortgage on my home was $1,100 per month. Two years later I purged around 70% of my possessions and downsized...
Standing on a path overlooking the Neuschwanstein Castle, we could hear the clip-clop of horses’ hooves. A pair of chestnut-colored horses stomped past me and my husband, pulling a carriage carrying visitors. While the animals were a handsome pair, it was the scene of the medieval-style castle...
As we’ve vacationed on various Caribbean islands over the years, it’s become a standing joke that my husband, Desmond, will always say of these lesser offerings: “Nice, but they’re no Grenadian beaches.” I’ve come to appreciate that he has a point. In Grenada, the water is crystal clear, warm, and calm. The beaches are wide with white sand...
My husband David and I are renting a one-bedroom house in the Los Arcos area, with a full view of the 18th-century aqueduct that stretches from the hills in the east to the center of town. We pay $800 a month for our one-bedroom duplex, which is fully furnished and includes all utilities and the occasional homemade dinner that our landlord brings to us (he's awesome!).
Despite having lived in Vietnam for well over a decade, it took years before I even heard of Quy Nhon, a city of more than 450,000 sun-kissed souls on the south-central coast. A friend told me it was a beautiful place, just right for retirees, but there were only a few foreigners living there. How could this city have escaped my notice? My curiosity was piqued...
Imagine making the decision to leave your teaching job in a Canadian high school and get on a plane to Mexico. That’s what Nadia McLean did, and she never regretted her decision. A Canadian by birth, Nadia began her teaching career in 2000 and worked for 22 years before deciding to move to Mexico.
I had been traipsing around the jungles of Southeast Asia for so long that my adventure cup overflowed. Too many weeks in the forests and temples of the Golden Triangle had me feeling like Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now. It was time for a change of scene, so I booked a flight to Bali for some R&R.
Everyone thinks it’s really complicated to renovate a house abroad, but our experience has only been positive,” says Maureen McDermott Carreira. Originally from Philadelphia, Maureen moved to Portugal for love. Just over a decade ago she met her husband, João, a Portuguese software engineer, who was living and working in the U.S.