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Expat Interview with Kimberley Lovato

Walnut Wine and Truffle Groves The expat community in Belgium never ceases to amaze me with its creativity. Today I am pleased to present one such creative endeavour. American expat, Kimberley Lovato, has just launched her first book, Walnut Wine and Truffle Groves. This book is about two subjects that are very close to my heart – food and southwest France. Walnut Wine and Truffle Groves is part travel book, part cookbook and part photo essay. Kimberley visited wineries, markets and farms...

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Ak Lu'um Community Celebrates the Spring Equinox

This morning, students, parents, teachers and friends of the Ak Lu'um International School community gathered by the ruins in Playacar Phase 1 to mark the beginning of Spring. The Spring or Vernal Equinox was an important and pivotal point in the yearly calendar of our ancient Maya. All indigenous cultures are solar in origin and follow the solstices and equinoxes. As we now know, many of these civilizations built profound and complex structures, utilizing advanced geometry and astronomy,...

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Wanna Chat with Korean Buddies' How not to make an Ass of Yourself: Part 1

Ooh, dear expat readers:You thought I was going to let you off the hook, didn't you' You thought I was going to put all of the onus on the Koreans who approach us, to defer to our cultural uniqueness, to be the one who comes to us, to adapt to our special situation.No flippin' way!Halfway through preparing this series, I realized just how high-handed, and totally unbalanced, the series was coming out to be... due to the fact I can really only present one expat's point of view, and generalize...

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Great Expat and Travel Blogs

What's in your Google Reader' Today I'd like to draw a bit of your attention away from CheeseWeb and point it towards my ever growing blogroll. After stagnating for a year or so, I've recently discovered a whole batch of new and fabulous blogs. Many of these new blogs are from other expats here in Belgium. I thought I knew of most of the bloggers here, at least those in Brussels, but boy was I missing out. With the high expat turnover rate, especially in the capital, there always seems to...

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Ask an Expat: Ice in drinks

In the comments from last week’s Ask an Expat, Julia left me this question: I think it's interesting that you want less from the U.S. I don't know what I'd miss the most if I left. Maybe ice since I hear that you can never get ice in your drink in Europe. Is that true' LOL, [...]

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Italy ? The Reality Show

What with election shenanigans, media manipulation investigations, and other fun and games, those watching Italy could, perhaps, be forgiven for thinking that Italy is one huge great reality show.  A surreal mix of Big Brother, X-Factor, and Love Island, perhaps' Leading the Big Brother house, and all the other reality flavours, we have one Silvio Berlusconi, who is also participant, director, producer, and scriptwriter.  Yes, recent events do seem to have converted the Living Museum into the...

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Expat Observations Shared

As mentioned at earlier Post, my ongoing gathering of Expat stories continues daily in Jamaica. Each time I glance a new Expat in Kingston, I usually want to race over to them and tell them what I am up to, and ask them if they would like to be part ...

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Reading Carnival @ Changi Simei

MOLLY (Mobile Library, NLB) - Reading Carnival @ Changi SimeiThe "Reading Carnival @ Changi Simei" was held at Changi Simei Community Club on Sunday, March 14, 2010 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.This blog is not written in any official capacity of National Library Board, Changi Simei Community Club, People's Association, Changkat Primary School, PAP Community Foundation (PCF) and other supporting partners for this community event. With about 350 participants and residents to attend, it was a very...

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Info on the usage of ATM, debit and credit cards in Italy and Europe

Here are some links on the usage of ATM, debit and credit cards in Italy and Europe:PLEASE NOTE: The information being provided is primarily for debit and credit cards issued from institutions based in the USA except where noted below.INFORMATIONUSAAcceptance of Debit and Credit Cards ? Source: FlyerGuide ? ",,, is the ultimate resource for travelers who want to learn more about frequent flyer programs, earn more frequent flyer miles, and get more from their travels."ATM Cards in Italy -...

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Italy Tutto

My post on Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel was just named one of the top ten posts of the week at Italy Tutto!  And here, I'd like to toot the horn of Italy Tutto along with its fabulous writer, SC Parry.  We bloggers like to keep in touch within the on-line world and I've been in email contact with Ms. Parry before.  But more importantly, I use her blog constantly to get excellent information about Italy.  She keeps a list of all the extant blogs written about the country,...

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