I’ve been a big fan of The Displaced Nation for quite some time now. How could I not, with a tagline of ‘A Land of Plenty for the Global Voyager,’ promising advice, opinions and yarns? One of my favorite features on the site is the interview series called Random Nomads. The questions posed aren’t your average ’where [...]
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Career Break? Yes Please!
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Expat Life, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Travel, tagged blogging, burnout, career break, Career Break Secrets, Career Break Secrets Travel Show, career change, global nomad, Jeff Jung, laid off, Random Nomads, serial wanderer, The Displaced Nation, travel, travel writing, unemployed on May 17, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Welcoming Party
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Culture & Customs, Dutch Life, Family & Friends, Netherlands, Travel, tagged airport, arrival lounge, arrivals, balloons, clown nose, departures, flags, flowers, helium balloon, kazoos, music festival, noisemakers, parking lots, passengers, Schiphol, travelers, welcome home, welcome signs on May 1, 2012 | 24 Comments »
Every now and then I’m reminded of a cultural aspect of the Netherlands that is so very different from the US that it practically screams ‘this is SO different!’ This morning it was my journey to Schiphol airport to pick up Husband from his latest trip. Now first let me say that I love Schiphol [...]
Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen: Further North
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Travel, tagged Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, Danish Royal Treasury, Denmark, Further North, Hans Christian Anderson, Little Mermaid, Netherlands, Rosenburg Castle, Tivoli Gardens & Amusement Park on April 26, 2012 | 12 Comments »
The sun has been playing hide-and-seek behind the clouds all day. It’s teasing me with hints of its brilliance followed by longer periods of grey overcast sky. In other words, it’s a typical spring day. I was visibly reminded that it’s time to revisit earlier posts in the Further North series (here are Stockholm Sun and [...]
Sandwich Generation, Expat-style
Posted in Blogging, Change, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Family & Friends, Holidays, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Travel, tagged children, elderly, expats, needs, parenting from afar, parents, sandwich generation on April 14, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Recently I caught up with a couple expat friends, enjoying koffie while sharing the latest on comings and goings. Spring is in the air, along with blooming trees, blossoming flowers and plants, and the necessary but dreaded pollen. Students are getting antsy, ready to break free of their daily grind (oh, if they only knew!) of classes, course [...]
Stellar Stonehenge
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Light Bulb Moments, Travel, tagged ancient, astronomy, Bucket List, England, equinox, lunar calendar, lunar eclipse, solar eclipse, solstice, stars, stellar, Stonehenge on April 12, 2012 | 16 Comments »
On a recent trip to England I had the opportunity to experience one of the items on my own personal bucket list: a visit to Stonehenge. And may I just say that it was everything I’d hoped it would be, and more. Competing theories abound as to the origination and purpose of Stonehenge: the massive [...]
Windmills of Kinderdijk
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Dutch Life, Expat Life, Netherlands, Travel, tagged cafe culture, Kinderdijk, Netherlands, outdoor culture, spring, windmills on March 25, 2012 | 12 Comments »
This weekend has been absolutely phenomenal. You know, the kind of first weekend that truly announces ‘Spring has arrived’. The sun has been shining brilliantly for three days, a gorgeous blue sky with just a few pale wisps of white cloud here and there. The weather has been in the mid 60s to low 70s (Fahrenheit) here in [...]
Wildlife Filmmaker: How Cool is that?!
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Expat Life, Netherlands, Travel, tagged BBC, expat, filmmaker, Michael Sanderson, National Geographic, Netherlands, The Hague, The Underground, wildlife cameraman, writing on March 5, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Recently I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing a talented young wildlife filmmaker, Michael Sanderson, for an article I was writing for The Underground, our new English language monthly newspaper here in The Hague. Michael’s a creative young visionary in his field whose work has appeared on the BBC and National Geographic, and it was [...]
The Upside of Humor
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Light Bulb Moments, Travel, tagged adventures, funny, giggles, humor, humorous anecdotes, jokes, knock knock jokes, laughter, Malta, smile on March 1, 2012 | 22 Comments »
You know what I realized yesterday? Humor is funny. Really funny. Let me rephrase that. I’m not talking about dark humor, sick humor, mean-spirited at the expense of someone else humor. I’m referring to your all-purpose humor. The good kind that makes you smile or giggle or even laugh out loud. It feels good. Humor has [...]
Tastes That Tell Our Stories
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Culture & Customs, Expat Life, Food and Drink, Guest Posts, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, Travel, tagged Erica Knecht, expat life, Expatria Baby, five senses, hearing, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, NSEW, sight, smell, taste, touch on February 20, 2012 | 12 Comments »
NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches It’s time again for our monthly 4-way virtual blog, aka NSEW. Expat bloggers from In Search of a Life Less Ordinary, Expatria Baby, I Was an Expat Wife and here at Adventures in Expat Land get together to write on a theme and then guest post at each others’ sites. Moving abroad [...]
Celebrating an Adventure in Expat Land
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Netherlands, New to Nederland, Travel, United States, tagged adventure, California, expat, ICTY, living overseas, Netherlands, The Hague, US on December 28, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Earlier this week we had a wonderful celebration of sorts. Despite being late December, we weren’t celebrating the Dutch Second Christmas (Tweede Kerstdaag) or the British Boxing Day. Instead, we were celebrating the end of Bryan and Danielle’s (current) adventure in Nederland. I first heard from Danielle back in the summer when she contacted me [...]
Initial Days of Turning Points Virtual Book Tour
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Travel, Turning Points Book, Writing, tagged Amazon #1, bestseller, guest blogging, Turning Points book, virtual book tour, writing on November 5, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Hi all. It sure has been a busy week! As most of you know, the book launched on Tuesday, November 1st. After a frenzied climb, it finally hit #1 on Amazon’s Books Bestsellers List for the Women & Business category, which is no small feat. In fact, it’s a huge whopping big deal! Turning Points also peaked [...]
Feel a Change Comin’ On
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Travel, tagged Bob Dylan, college, different countries, different time zones, empty nest, expat life, global parenting, parenting from afar, university, writing on October 17, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I’ve had the lyrics from that Bob Dylan song swirling around in my head these past few days. Have you ever felt that change is in the air? I don’t mean piddly little stuff. I’m talking about momentous change. The kind of feeling like you’re standing on a precipice: nothing but open air in front of you and rocks [...]
Tallinn, Estonia: Further North
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Travel, tagged daylight, Estonia, Further North, summer travel, Tallinn on August 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Today is starting out as one of those rainy, overcast summer days, meaning only one thing. Time for more ‘Further North’. In honor of the extra daylight we celebrate here in The Netherlands during the summer months, I had decided a few weeks ago to write about visiting some of the places that enjoy even longer days. By [...]
A Grenade Lost in Translation
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Travel, tagged Antwerp, back to school shopping, Bruno Mars, Grenade, Invader Stu, Invading Holland, shopping, the Meir on August 16, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Last week Daughter and I went on a road trip for back-to-school clothes. The destination? We wanted a fun place with great shopping where we could spend the day together. Somewhere to enjoy a nice lunch in a quaint restaurant on a quiet sidestreet. And a place where we could check out a beautiful cathedral and medieval [...]
Twenty Three Days
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Holidays, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Travel, United States, tagged adult, child, college, grow up, mature, rite of passage, university on August 2, 2011 | 23 Comments »
Twenty three days. Twenty three short days. That’s the amount of time left until Son reports to university and begins his college career. He won’t be living at home and commuting to school. Nor will he be moving out into his own place to attend college nearby. He’s not even moving across the country. [...]
Not Going Back (This Year)
Posted in Change, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Travel, United States, tagged expat life, United States, visiting home on July 28, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Okay, let’s start again. This year I’m not going back. When I typed that sentence the other day, intending to write about one thing, it spiraled off onto another tangent. That happens. Since my writing muse was not only on speaking terms with me but appeared to be hunkered down for a full-fledged chitchat, I [...]
Stockholm Sun: Further North
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Travel, tagged Further North, Stockholm, Sweden on July 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Long before we ever moved abroad, we had always valued trekking around this vast planet we inhabit: taking in its wonder and beauty, visiting near and far, and appreciating a diverse array of cultures. In the years since moving here to The Netherlands, we have traveled far and wide: it is a fixation, a priority, a [...]
When It’s Over: Regret and the Post-Expat Life
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Transitions & Change, Guest Posts, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, Repatriation, Travel, tagged Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bordeaux, expat life, love lost, Repatriation, Singapore on July 14, 2011 | 34 Comments »
NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches Welcome to the inaugural four-way guest posting of NorthSouthEastWest! We are four expat bloggers who have joined together to rotate our monthly guest posts from the four corners of the world on each other’s blogs: Linda (Yours Truly) at Adventuresinexpatland.com (North), Russell at Insearchofalifelessordinary.com (South), Erica at Expatriababy.com (East) and Maria at [...]
The Six Rs
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Travel, tagged getting away, reboot, recharge, reconfigure, rejuvenate, relax, restore, Six Rs, vacation on July 12, 2011 | 10 Comments »
One of the most important things we can do for ourselves is nothing. Absolutely nothing. Let me explain. We have a tendency in this 21st century world we live in to work hard. Play hard. Do just about everything at breakneck speed. We’re always on the go. In fact, sometimes we get so caught up [...]
When Cultures Collide
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Family & Friends, Netherlands, New to Nederland, Travel, tagged Amsterdam, big city, tourists on June 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A couple weeks ago I spent the day in Amsterdam, showing my elderly parents some of the sights of this vibrant, busy city. Two distinctly unrelated things struck me. Today I’m going to share the first with you. Simply put, we were all amazed at exactly how bustling A’dam was. Now I fully understand why two [...]
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