Immigrants on the Move

  • Comparison is the Thief of Joy

    Comparison is the Thief of Joy

    My short two months back in the UK has been eye opening and educational. It has taught me a lot about myself, outside of the fact that it’s not the country I’d choose to live in. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a scenario where I’ve been away from a place or person I knew… Read more

  • Have I Changed?

    Have I Changed?

    Are you someone who classes yourself as easily influenced? Can you be talked into going out for drinks when you said you wouldn’t have any alcohol that week, or persuaded to have a late night when you’ve got a big meeting the next day? I know people in both camps, I am borderline sociopathic when… Read more

  • Some Places Just Don’t Work

    Some Places Just Don’t Work

    I’ve been reticent to write about Baku, mostly because when I was still in the country I was aware any negative thing said about it could result in them kicking you out. I had a friend who’s cousin was removed from the country due to an oversight with his student visa, he was kept in… Read more

  • Should I Stay or Should I Go?

    Should I Stay or Should I Go?

    Before I started living overseas, I think I would have been one of those self-righteous twenty year olds who claimed I would happily live any of the places I’ve gone on holiday. This was before. Before dealing with red tape, and local customs, and etiquette rules we know nothing about. Now I firmly believe there… Read more

  • When Your Heart Is Scattered

    When Your Heart Is Scattered

    As I prepare to move to my next temporary location, one of the benefits is that it is in France where my best friend and my goddaughter live. I am a mix of nerves at the this new start, this is the first move I have done for me. The first time I’ve put my… Read more

  • Over-Influenced Under-Caring

    Over-Influenced Under-Caring

    Each country has its own culture, this is an undeniable fact. How we as visitors see their culture is completely subjective, and how we interpret their behaviour can be the difference between understanding and reacting to their way of doing things. My husband used to say that if he was having a heart attack in… Read more

Favourite Moments

Skerries

Where is home? What makes a place that feels like home. For me it’s Ireland.

Pitigliano

A place to lose yourself in the fairy enchantment of a cliffside town.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad