When I moved to Bordeaux, France in 2016, I barley knew a dozen words. I could say the basics almost any tourist could say like bonjour and merci. It definitely wasn’t ideal for living in France. Most people and businesses that you interact with to do all the things you need to do in order […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: June 2018
June is the month of many milestones for us. Tim and I met in June 18 years ago. We moved to Italy in June nine years ago. We also started this blog in June nine years ago. And two years ago I made the move to Bordeaux. If someone would have told me 18 years […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: May 2018
May was the month that started out in a literal sandstorm in the desert in Oman, then turned into a shitstorm back at home. As a travel influencer, I post the pretty photos (that usually took 20 or more attempts to get that perfect shot) and paint the carefree picture of a life of perpetual […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: April 2018
“Time goes by so slowly when you’re a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.” – David Lowery As adults, we’re always going, going, going. There’s a million and one things to do, and never enough hours in the day to do them all. I’ve never been […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: March 2018
I turned 38 in March, and as my mom kindly reminded me, I’m now less than two years away from the big 4-0. Most days it’s unbelievable that I’m pushing forty; others, I feel like I’ve lived at least two lifetimes in my 38 years. While I have a lot of things to be thankful […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: February 2018
How is it already past the middle of March?! I’m not even sure what happened to February. Between meeting up with Tim for a long weekend in Carcassonne, flying to London for three days to participate as a judge in the Travel Retail Awards, meeting Tim in Málaga for another long weekend and then making […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: January 2018
I know the new year is well underway when that time to start printing off my telephone book sized dossier for my French residency renewal rolls around again. I almost made a major mistake too, which means I’m getting pretty comfortable dealing with the part of French bureaucracy. I thought I had until mid-March to […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: December 2017
We journeyed to five new-to-us countries this year, spent time in 12 different countries, 60 different cities and collectively traveled over 100,000 miles in 2017. We skied in Andorra, dived the Seychelles, zip lined inside a cave in Wales, and enjoyed the Christmas festivities in Edinburgh, Scotland together. I spent two weeks trekking and exploring […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: November 2017
November was an extremely hard month. As we announced in October’s Bordeaux in 365 Bottles, Emma passed away on November 3. Even though our cat of 16 years passed away last spring, I’ve never known heartbreak and grief like I’ve been going through since Emma died. Some days I’ve just felt paralyzed from doing anything; […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: October 2017
I can’t get this image out of my head. It was just before 7am and still dark out here in Bordeaux. Not even the morning going to work traffic had started yet. I stood with Emma on the street in front of my apartment building as Tim got his GPS situated for his drive back […]
