We arrived back at our home in Girona, Catalonia just in time for the run up to the hugely divisive referendum to be held on October 1. We chose to escape again and walk the trail from Santiago de Compostela to Finisterre.

I found myself in the "gout zone," which gave me a new sympathy for the plight of the comic character Major Hoople from my youth.

For expats, friendship takes on important additional dimensions.

We just saw an article about how cheap it is to live in Spain. I can't say that our life in Girona is a particularly good example of what this author is talking about, but it may be true of other parts of Spain.

It’s August here in Spain and one by one all the shops I like to frequent are putting up those little “closed for vacation” signs. The whole town gradually empties of locals as the "Gironenes" escape to the beaches on the Costa Brava if they can afford it, or to somewhere in the countryside if they can’t. 

Money is at the root of many of the challenges we face as expats. In this post we discuss our approach to dealing in different currencies. 

With frequent travels in Europe and the U.K., we've learned plenty about communication and not without a few mishaps along the way. 

if you are living abroad or planning to do so, you will probably need to consider how to get your mail forwarded to your new country. In this post we discuss a commercial and personal strategies for solving the problem.

You probably think that once your residency in your new country is assured, daily life will become routine. Well, think again. In this post, we discuss a series of new challenges that presented themselves once we made the move.