Telegraph Weekly – iPad edition
As an expat it’s easy to feel out of touch with news from home. We all know how hard it can be to find a copy of your national newspaper, on time and reasonably...
Author: Bryony Ashcroft
Living abroad – to see or not to see?
Once you’ve unpacked, found a job, worked out the transport system, and all the other things that come with settling in to your adopted country, you can finally start enjoying your new surroundings. A...
Getting excited about the little things
It’s a common expression, ‘you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone’, it also always makes me sing Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, but that’s another story. In this context it reminds me of...
You’ve got a friend – Making friends as an expat
One of the worries that faces people preparing to make the transition abroad, aside from language barriers and culture shock, is how to make new friends. Leaving behind a trusted group of confidants that...
Overcoming culture shock
Before I moved to Madrid in January this year, I had little knowledge of Spain, its language or its culture and had previously only visited on the obligatory family beach holiday to Majorca. To...
