Meet the Expats
68 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -In Meet the Expats you will hear stories from expats all over the world as they share their motivations, challenges and unique experiences in the new place they have decided to call home, for a few years, months or a lifetime. 🌍
From making new friends, and dating, to kids and looking for a new job, these expats will share how they got through the challenges of moving their lives to a new country, their top secret addresses and favorite spots we all wish we had when we settled into a new city. ✈️
Tune in every second wednesday to discover a new portrait, interview and city ❤️
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Meet Josh & Kalie: Expats Everywhere
March 27, 2024 06:30 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBMeet Josh and Kalie, In their 20s they decided to go live abroad together, and then expat life just never stopped. They traveled from country to country, leveling up as English teachers, until it was time to move on to a new project and go back to Europe. They are now living in Portugal, and have launched Expats Everywhere, helping aspiring expats make the move. Recommendations: ☕ SO coffee roasters ☕ Negra Café O Buraco restaurant Brasau restaurant FC porto stadium Covello park ...
Meet Elena: how to learn languages with a method
March 06, 2024 06:30 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBMeet Elena, In her late teens she left Russia for a few months exchange in the US and hated it! But having met the love of her life there, she took it upon herself to go back and go to college there. Fast forward 18 years later she has settled there, overcome all the challenges and now moved to France with her family. This new move came with it's own challenges such as language, culture and of course a new way of life. On her 5th language now Elena shares her foolproof method to learn and ...
Meet Terry: Expat adventures in Africa
January 17, 2024 06:30 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBMeet Terry, Who initially moved abroad to understand her ancestors past, she fell in love with travelling and followed her husband throughout his postings in Africa in the midst of the AIDS pandemic. In this episode, she shares: What life in Africa was like in the 90s How she adapted to the different cultures and made friends Life with young children abroad The many adventures and lessons life abroad has taught her You can find more of her stories in her latest book: Circling Home, Wh...
Meet Jessica: building and maintaining relationships as an expat
December 13, 2023 06:30 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBMeet Jessica, Life and career coach, Jessica is an expat living in Dubaï. After several years spent in Spain, in the hospitality industry, she met her now husband and moved to Dubaï together. In this episode she shares - the decision process to move to Dubaï with her partner, how this was a joint and timely decision that served both of them - how to maintain and nurture long distance relationships with loved ones - how to network in Dubaï Her recommendations include : Attiko, restaur...
Meet Carlos: battling depression with a new life in Germany
November 22, 2023 06:30 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBMeet Carlos Baker, Artist, and author, he shares his atypical life starting with a life changing childhood. We then move on to his struggle with depression and how moving to Germany with his wife and children was the change he needed. With this move came a new lifestyle, as he became a stay at home dad looking after his 4 four children. In the small town of Minden and surroundings, he recommends: - Paradiso italian restaurant 🍝 - Schafers brot bakery for bread rolls 🍞 And surprisingly...
Meet Lucy: making her way to Canada
November 01, 2023 06:30 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBMeet Lucy Jeon, Korean young woman, expat podcaster and founder of HeyGlobally. Early on, she knew deep down she wanted to live in North America, Korea was just too small and traditional for her. In this episode learn how she worked her way over to Canada, where she now feels "comfortable" as she says. Listen as we explore: - Culture shock even though you move to a nearby country - How strangely you can feel less lonely alone abroad then in your home country - How her expectations pri...
Meet Robert: a 70s' nomad settles for life in Japan
October 11, 2023 05:30 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBMeet Robert Norris, A conscientious Vietnam war objector and author of The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me. In this episode he shares the stories of his travels around Europe and the world, roadtripping from France to Iran, until he decides to settle in Japan where he moves his way up from a simple teaching job on a student Visa to full-time dean and eventually retired with a pension in a small city close to Fukuoka. His recommendations for J...
Meet Ann Marie: giving back in San Miguel de Allende
September 20, 2023 05:30 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBMeet Ann Marie, American expat living in San Miguel de Allende, Ann Marie left on a sabbatical to test living there with her husband, years later they are still there living their dream among the artistic community. Very she quickly she got involved in the local community helping build houses with Casita Linda and then launching Mano Amiga to empower women through microloans for their small businesses. Recently she wrote a novel The broken hummingbird the story of an american woman mov...
Meet the Lovers: expats go dating
August 30, 2023 05:30 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBMeet the lovers, In this special episode, we talk about love ❤️ and dating abroad. I interviewed 3 expats Laurie, David and Sangra at a Pitch Dating event in Paris, and they shared their dating stories; 1. Laurie, founder of 💕 Pitch Dating tells us about this fun concept of meeting new people and what it was like dating Swedes in London 2. David tells us about the 👻 scary dating world in Paris with mixed lines and the importance the friend circle plays when it comes to dating a REAL P...
Meet Philippe & Anne-Mathilde: Couple in Miami
July 26, 2023 05:30 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBMeet Philippe & Anne-Mathilde, In this episode the french couple shares their surprises, challenges, discoveries and adventures along their first expat adventure in Miami. We explore what each other's expectations with this trip was as well as their own motivations to take the leap. Both also share their discovery of the latin culture and recommendations: - 🍸 bar: Botanico gin in Coconut grove - 🐟 restaurant Aromas del Peru for ceviche and https://bullagastrobar.com/Bulla gastrobar fo...
Meet Nicole: music in Malagà
July 05, 2023 05:30 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBMeet Nicole, An american young woman living in Malaga, Spain for the past few years. In this episode, she shares her love for latin culture and how she improved her spanish and adjusted to the slow paced life, but also a few the story behind the local traditional music Verdiales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1mOsB1AXwo&list=RDQMAFekszLRTH4&start_radio=1 Her recommendations: La Tranca : bar with old records El Pimpi : one of the oldest wine bars, now co-owned by Antonio Banderas Bota...
Meet Mike: expat taxes
June 14, 2023 05:30 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBMeet Mike, Former expat, he has lived across the globe, and now back in Michigan is CEO of Greenback Expat Tax Services. In this special episode, he shares his experience abroad and the results of the recent 2023 Expat Trends Survey built by Greenback. The survey, conducted among over 3,200 US expats across 122 countries, provides invaluable insights into the lives and sentiments of the growing expat community. From revealing that 1 in 5 US expats are seriously considering or planning to ...
Meet Laurel: finding her place through the library volunteers
May 31, 2023 05:30 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBMeet Laurel, Childrens author now based in Germany for over 10 years, she shares her arrival in the small city of Bonn and how she made her place in this little town by taking part in the things she loves: books and gardening. Indeed she joined the library as a volunteer and very quickly became a part of the community, same by joining the shared gardens and growing her vegetables she has been able to share with experiences with both the locals and migrants of the town. Her recommendation...
Meet Fred: from Expat life to Coco Living
May 17, 2023 05:30 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBMeet Fred, TCK and former expat, after traveling the world for work, staying in hotels and short term rentals, he settles back in Paris and enters the real estate industry: this is the premises of Coco. In this episode he shares how he founded Coco Living with the wish of reinventing life in the city of Paris. Coco offers furnished apartment rentals, access to co-working spaces and events to create meaningful connections between internationals. Socialize with like-minded entrepreneurs an...
Meet Dian: from nobel prize to kindergarden teacher in Thailand at 60
April 19, 2023 05:30 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBMeet Dian, Dian was a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where she contributed to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize–winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 🌱 After her early retirement, she decided to live the adventure abroad with her husband as english teachers. Little did they know they would end up in Thailand teaching kindergarten children! 🐥 In this episode, she shares how she approached life abroad at 60, adjusted to an entirely new work en...
Meet Susan: finding your sober tribe
April 05, 2023 05:30 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBMeet Susan, Irish expat in France for decades, Susan tells us how a love story turned her vacation in Paris into a lifetime in France ❤️ Having spent the different stages of her life abroad, she shares how she went from party Susan to motherhood and how that impacted her social life but also how drinking became a form of self-care. She gives us practical tips to be aware of our drinking habits, especially when abroad in cultures that put drinking at the center of social interactions and how...
Meet Giulia: living her almost unplanned project in the US
March 08, 2023 06:30 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBMeet Giulia, Italian young woman, who after a first experience in India and in Colombia, decided Italy would not be for the rest of her life. So with her husband, they planned their escape together, and landed on the US early this year. In this episode, Giulia shares how for once in her life she has no plan and is letting herself live and adapt, her culture shocks and how she is growing in this new culture. Follow her adventures on her Youtube Channel The Unplaned Project and try her rec...
Meet Gal and Maayan: sisters embracing change!
February 15, 2023 06:30 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBMeet Gal and Mayan 🍉 Two sisters who grew up in constant change back and forth between Israel and France and embraced this change early on, making it a part of their lifestyle and live by the motto: see everything as an opportunity, make things happen! 💪 After multiple moves throughout their adult life, they are now both settled in Paris, and running Smoozitive together, helping women live their best life abroad. Recommendations 🍺 Pub Saint Germain 🍕 Pasta fresco to get a ta ste of It...
Meet Andrea: flying her wings across the world
February 01, 2023 06:30 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBMeet Andrea, From Northern Ireland, at the early age of 21, without knowing anything about the UAE, she flew off to become an air hostess at Emirates ✈️ from there, she kept on traveling and living in new countries in the UAE, but also in the US with a husband and child this time, in Australia, Japan. She is now recently back in the UK, much closer to home, but perhaps this is the most challenging move. We discover that the challenges can sometimes be things that we don't necessarily think ...
Meet Mikkel: an expat building a new type of schools
January 18, 2023 06:30 - 32 minutes - 28.5 MBMeet Mikkel, He has been travelling the world non stop for 20 years and an expat all over the globe. In this episode he shares how he trasnformed his passion for travel into a business, while moving from country to country how he offers an alternative schooling program both online and in brick and mortar schools, which can be a good solution for expat kids his recommendations in Panama City: Salvaje Sushi & steak with a wild show Go for a stroll on Avenida balboa Learn more about M...
Meet Pauline: THE podcast host and TCK
January 04, 2023 06:30 - 49 minutes - 45 MBMeet Pauline, Third Culture Kid and host of this podcast. This week I'm in the 🔥 hot seat and talk through my childhood as a french girl in Ireland and South Africa, how I moved on my own terms later on, surprisingly back to Ireland ☘️, and also my return to France after all those years, my reverse culture shock and of course, the genesis of this podcast 🎙️ I'll share some tips to get through RCS and my favorite spots in Paris ☕ Voie 15 a café and co-working space on the green belt with ...
Meet Stephen: citizenship vs residency to live your life abroad
December 07, 2022 06:30 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBMeet Stephen, Who takes us to France, Paris where he has been living for over 10 years. From his experience of moving he shares his tips before a move: choosing the best country knowing language will factor in making friends can take longer in some countries learn if residency or citizenship is the best for you And his parisian recommendations: ☕ Cafe Pure for a casual parisian café 🍲 The Hood for fusion food 🌳 La promenade plantée for a stroll in the city And his song is the open...
Meet Faiza: anchoring friendships in Hong Kong
November 23, 2022 06:30 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBMeet Faiza, Pakistani serial expat. Despite having moved her family and life several times, this last move to Hong-Kong was by far the most challenging. She explains how the Covid restrictions challenged their arrival and integration into the city. She overcame these and came to love her time in Hong Kong by: making a comfortable home building strong friendships joining local activieiities like playing Majong Recommendations in Hong Kong 🍸 Argo bar in the Four Seasons for amazing view...
Meet Vangile: learning to budget to live the nomad life
November 02, 2022 06:30 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBMeet Vangile, Who has been living the nomad life for years 🌎 After struggling with money trauma, she now masters her budgets and runs her own business enabling her to travel the world debt free. In this episode she explains: - how her first travels were through cruise work - how she continues her self care journey when discovering new countries - the beauty and kindness of the strangers she has met across the world She shares recommendations in Mexico: 🌮 Vegan tacos at No Mames in La...
Meet Fanny: Power woman with a trailing husband
October 19, 2022 05:30 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBMeet Fanny, Power woman, living in Indonesia. 💪 In this episode she shares how, with her husband they made the decision to settle where her career took her, even if that meant more challenges for him to integrate in the remote areas of Cameroun and Indonesia. She also opens up about their journey of creating a family and going through the process of medically assisted fertilization as an expat. Her Indonesian recommendations: 🍹 Omlandia at the River Deli Hotel 🍣 Sushi Tei for authen...
Meet Lena: infusing the dutch with her culture
September 14, 2022 05:30 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBMeet Lena, Who left her life in Moscow to wander the world after a speed dating session. OK, it didn't quite happen like that but... she decided to move to London to start a master and after that realized she needed an international environment and went on to find a job in the Netherlands. In this episode, we discuss culture and cross-culture communications. Lena explains how she picked up parts of the dutch culture and traditions but also shared her own culture with her close ones there, ...
Meet Jennifer: Zimbabwean ballet teacher
July 13, 2022 05:30 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBMeet Jennifer, Zimbabwean, who to pursue her dance dreams left home at 17, and moved to the UK to study ballet and then travelled across the pond to find her new new home in Canada. In this episode she shares her motivations to move and travel through dance as well as how writing became a form of expression and of grief for the zimbabwean life she left some insights from her poems All forgotten now As for recommendations in Calgary, Canada: 🍹Betty Lou's Library for some litterary c...
Meet Sam: the struggle to find work in the USA
May 25, 2022 05:30 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBMeet Sambridhi, A young Nepalese who moved to Colorado to pursue university. After graduating she decided to find a job in the US to continue her life there, little did she know how difficult it would be when you need VISA sponsorship. In this episode she talks us through: Her culture shocks 🤯 The requirements for international postgrads to stay in the country 🌎 Her tips in Colorado 🏜️ Her expat song: Françoise Hardy Comment te dire adieu 🎤 Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy...
Meet Christine: moving with intention and purpose
April 06, 2022 05:30 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBMeet Christine, Podcast host of Flourish in Foreign. In this episode, she shares her journey to expat life in Spain, triggered by an intense hike across the country and gives us tips to Set your purpose Live your expat life with intention Learn how to slow down In Spain for 5 years now, her favorite places are: 🍹Bar: Bugalü Bar - Valencia 🌮 Restaurant: Gallo Santo in Barcelona for Vegan Mexican food 🍦 Amma - Barcelona for Vegan Gelato Carte blanche: Sant Pol de Mar beach close ...
Meet the Italians: Italy in three words
January 26, 2022 06:30 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBMeet my friends in Italy 🇮🇹, Well mainly Nicola, he is italian, from Salerno, and has lived in Milan but now lives in Dublin, with Ann, who is Belgian but has lived in Milan, and Youma, french living in Dublin but just as in love with Italy as I am. Travelling through Italy for a month I wanted to get different perspectives on the country, in this episode we talk about culture, traditions, the food of course and the work opportunities. For some food 🍕recommendations, Ann has your back wi...
Meet Florence: Expat Wife, Happy Life!
January 12, 2022 06:30 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBMeet Florence, Serial expat for 25 years, currently living in Dubaï she recently published Expat wife Happy life, a practical book to live your best expat life. In this episode she helps us explore the questions you need to ask yourself before agreeing to move your life to a new country the questions you need to discuss with your partner the challenges you can expect And shares the reason of her book Expat wife, Happy life ! Now living in Dubaî here are her hotspots: Shimmers to e...
Meet Nifer: European and Mutlicultural
December 08, 2021 06:30 - 48 minutes - 44 MBMeet Nifer, Born in Spain, from a german mother and a british father, Nifer has forever been exposed to multiple cultures which have and continue to shape her unique identity. True european and eager to move every so often, we discuss: learning multiple languages as a child adapting and understanding new countires, their cultures and societies sense of belonging Now living in Paris, she shares her favorite Parisian spots 🎷Jazz bar café Laurent 🍖 Le select for nice celebration, try ...
Meet Raul: Digital Nomad
September 29, 2021 05:30 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBMeet Raul, Who started working remotely waaaay before the panedmic made it "trendy". In this episode Raul tells us how his very first internship and job were in a remote 1st company 🤯and how then when working in a startup in Chile he navigated back to the digital nomad livestyle: travelling and working is the dream! 🏝️ he now spends 6 months in Spain and 6 months travelling the world. We cover - why he chose this lifestyle with a corporate job - the must haves when digital nomad - his...
Meet Karissa: Battle of the Cultures Quebec vs United States
September 15, 2021 05:30 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBMeet Karissa, Small town girl who after her very first french class, made up her mind to move abroad and become a french teacher! Little did she know, when she made her move later on what she was in for. 💍 In this episode Karissa talks us through all her culture shocks, from living abroad in a region where english is not the official language, to cooking 🥑 with college friends. From the differences in educational and healthcare systems to mariage and family. She tells us how she grew and...
Meet Marcie: Em's awful good fortune
August 18, 2021 05:30 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBMeet Marcie, Serial expat and tag along wife, as she tells us how she followed her husband through Asia and Paris with just as many repatriations to LA as moves. ✈️ She shares how she had to reinvent hersefl and shifted from the music industry to writing ✒️ and the challenges a married couple goes through when relocating.💍 All these experiences, her expat circles experiences, and passion for writing led to Em's awful good fortune, where she explores issues of marriage and compromise, lov...
Meet Heather: passionate for the Middle East
July 14, 2021 05:30 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBMeet Heather, A Scottish woman, who decided to leave the UK to teach in the Middle East. After a few years in Doha, and Dubai she has now cummulated 14 years in the Middle East! She tells us: - the differences and various levels of conservatism from emiratee to emiratee - the yound kids passion for horse and camel racing - and her favorite aspects of the Middle East And here favorite spots in Dubaï: 🍸 Folly for drinks with a view 🍱 Marina Social for the food 🛍️ La Mer beach a...
Meet Linda: Serial repatriate
June 30, 2021 05:30 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBMeet Linda, Serial repatriate, and serial expat she has lived in Tokyo, London Abu Dhabi and reptatriated a few times back to Chicago where she is now living. In this episode she tells us what she has learned from her different moves and what changed in her approach to every new move. Plus how she has dealt with these multiple repatriations, that she treats as a new task, what is the Reverse Culture Shock and how to deal with it . And if you are heading to Chicago, check out her recommen...
Meet Kyle: moving to Paris on his terms
June 16, 2021 05:30 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBMeet Kyle, Who moved to Paris when he was 9, and 20 years later made the move there again, on his terms. In this episode he tells us how he lived the move as a nine year old how as an adult he decided to join Paris's growing tech scene the differences he has noticed in the french startup ecosystem vs San Francisco's Sillicon Valley and how to build your network in Paris Having spent the past 3 years in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, here is his 18th arr. list of recommendations: ...
Meet Sondre: building a safety net for digital nomads
June 02, 2021 05:21 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBMeet Sondre, Co-founder of SafetyWing, Sondre studied in Norway and started working as a policy advisor for the government. After getting frustrated with the slow pace of government change, he quit his job, and moved to Berlin to start freelancing and embraced the freedom! He first founded SuperSide (YC W16), a platform for freelance designers. It was here he discovered the lack of a safety net for online remote workers. SafetyWing was then born with the aim of building a global social saf...
Meet Ann: moving to Nepal with voluntary work
May 19, 2021 05:30 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBMeet Ann, For whom voluntary work has always been a part of her life ♥️ and also a way to go on an adventure and start living abraod 🌎 She tells us: -how via VSO she went to Nepal fro 3 years, working in education and woman empowerment, helping out in remote schools, -and then, with her family moved to France for what was initially 2 years... and has now become 10 years. She is an emigrant as she say! - and her tips to learn the language: her favorite way being cooking with a frnech w...
Meet Matt: from solo backpacking to teaching in South Korea
April 28, 2021 05:30 - 40 minutes - 37 MBMeet Matt, This young American with the dream of checking out every single country in the world 🌎 tells us about his solo backpacking experiences throughout Europe and Asia: flowing from ✈️ country to country meeting new people and experiencing unkown cultures. With an early passion for travel, he passed his Toefl exam to be able to exlpore the world and is now teaching english in South Korea. He tells us about the differences in curriculum and age, and of course gives us his top recommen...
Meet Thomas: relocating to Hamburg, twice!
April 14, 2021 05:30 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBMeet Thomas, An englishman who moved to Hamburg twice! He first encountered Germany 🇩🇪 watching german cable TV as a teenager, and from there went off to work in Hamburg a first time. After a few years back in the 🇬🇧 UK, he started to miss the German rules that initially bugged him and went back to Hamburg, this time relocating with 🎮 InnoGames, Germany’s leading developer and publisher of mobile and online games. He tells us: How he approached his move differently the 2nd time, How...
Meet Cristina: determined to move abroad, no matter what family thinks
March 31, 2021 05:30 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBMeet Cristina, Originally from Malaga in Spain 🇪🇸, she was determined to go abroad to the 🇬🇧 UK in Leeds to finish her studies and improve her english, this despite her family not supporting her in this choice. And so, while still studying and living at her parents, having never left home, she took on a loan to make her move happen and enjoy good conditions there without having the stress of making ends meet. Looking back, five years later, she tells us how the Leeds accent is one of its ...
Meet Pamela: an American in Paris
March 17, 2021 06:30 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBMeet Pamela Druckerman, Journalist and bestselling author for "Bringing up Bébé", Pamela moved to Paris in 2004. In this episode, she tells us about her initial fears of this snobby and cold city, in some aspects, versus the romantic place fantacised by most americans who see Paris as their escape city. We discuss the parenting differences she noticed with the US, from food to sleep and social benefits. And with "Paris by phone", her debut picture book with Benjamin Chaud, Pamela take...
Meet Cinthya: Au Pair from one end of the world to the other.
March 03, 2021 06:30 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBMeet Cinthya, A french 🇫🇷 young woman currently living in Brighton who went abroad for the first time as an aupair when she was 19 years old. In this episode she tells us how to become an Au Pair, the requirements, how to make sure you will be in good hands and the benefits of this type of abroad experience: great when you have little savings and want minimum stress in organising your leave! Check out www.aupairworld.com which she used for both her trips in the USA and Australia. Whe t...
Meet Sarah: from student to working life in London, a rollercoaster ride !
February 10, 2021 06:30 - 45 minutes - 42 MBMeet Sarah, Originally from San Diego, she fell in love in with the UK 🇬🇧 literally and decided to stay after her degree and having met the love of her life. Little did she know the struggle it would be to go from being an american student in the UK to being able to work in the UK. In this episode she shares How she obtained a working Visa for the UK How she socialised, built a strong professional network and ajusted her communication style to fit local culture Launched her own busines...
Meet David: making his dreams of Japan come true
January 27, 2021 06:30 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBMeet David, As the founder of Expat Empire, he is focused on inspiring people to move abroad and showing them how to do it. In this episode he tells us how his passion for Japan started at a very young age, and how he made his dream of living there, come true. 🌟 From finding a job, to navigating the unique work culture; from exploring the changing streets of the city to finding the best curry in town David takes us on an in depth tour of Tokyo, and even wrote a book: A passport to workin...
Meet Dorit : from Kibbutz life to reverse culture shock
January 13, 2021 06:30 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBMeet Dorit, Author of Sand and steel: a memoir of longing and fidning home. She tells us how she left the US during her college years to find a life she could relate to in Israel. First by serving in the military and then joining a Kibbutz where she founded a family. She tells us all about the community life within a Kibbutz, how they have evolved today and dives into what helped her deal with the reverse culture shock she experienced when she and her family made the difficult decision to...
Meet Carlos: when wine makes you a french citizen !
December 16, 2020 06:30 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBMeet Carlos A bolivian wine 🍇 lover who moved to France to study and work in the wine industry, liked it so much he became a french citizen. In this episode Carlos takes us to Marseille, in the south of France. He shares his integration process with the long apéros, the local codes, and how eventually, he decided to apply for french citizenship and make Marseille his new home. His top recommendations are 🍹 Coktail bar Gaspard https://www.facebook.com/bargaspard/ 🐠 Restaurant Ouréa htt...
4/4 Meet Emily in Paris - Locations
December 05, 2020 06:30 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBIn this short and final episode of Meet Emily in Paris TRUE/FALSE I talk you through the different locations we see in the show. EP 1 Her taxi ride from the airport takes her by the Eiffel Toweer --> Rue de Rivoli --> Concorde --> Arc de triomphe --> Opera --> her appartment in the 5th 🌳 The parc she runs in is Jardin du Luxembourg She meets Fabien at Café Flore ☕ EP 7 The corporate party with Brooklyn is at Le musée des arts forains and the clubbing afterwards takes place at Bus Palla...