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A Year in the Life of an International Teacher

July 15, 2017July 15, 2017 Bratislava, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Travelling, Working Overseas austria, bojnice, Bratislava, castle, cornwall, expat, heviz, hungary, iceland, international teaching, lake, looe, mountain, salzburg, Slovakia

I often get people asking me about life as an international teacher, so to honour 10 years of living overseas I have put this post together to show you what a year in my life

Pictures from the Cornish Coast

September 14, 2016September 14, 2016 Europe, Featured, Travelling, United Kingdom cornwall, lizard, looe, porthcurno, whitsand bay

Most of my summer was spent in Cornwall, a place that I grow to love more and more each time I visit. For this mid-week post I wanted to show you some of my favourite

New Year’s Eve Celebrations in Cornwall

January 1, 2014July 11, 2016 Europe, Partying, Tradition, Travelling, United Kingdom celebration, cornwall, costume, fancy dress, looe, new year, NYE, party

This year I decided that my NYE celebrations would be very low-key as my Iceland trip and the run-up to Christmas has been pretty expensive, so I decided to hold back for New Year. My

My 5 Travel Highlights of 2013

December 15, 2013July 11, 2016 Europe, Travelling bosnia, cornwall, england, europe, glacier, iceland, isle of skye, istanbul, Jökulsárlón, lagoon, looe, mostar, scotland, skye, travel, turkey, uk

At the beginning of 2013 I had no travel plans. I had just moved to an expensive apartment in Stockholm and expected a light travel year similar to 2012. But, as is often the case

Discovering Lovely Looe, Cornwall

September 22, 2013December 21, 2013 Europe, Nature, Travelling, Working Overseas britain, cornwall, england, fishing, looe, smuggling, uk, village

In British English the word loo is a colloquial term for the toilet, so when my sister and her husband announced that they were moving to Looe—pronounced in the same way—they received a few sniggers