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 […]
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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 […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: September 2017
This month’s Bordeaux in 365 Bottles is a bit ironic seeing how I haven’t even set foot in France a single day in September. Tim, now living in England about 20 minutes away from Cambridge, picked me and Emma up and we left for England on August 27. I’ve really missed my friends, strolling around […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: August 2017
August, a typically quiet month in Europe, was actually anything but. My email may have mostly remained blissfully slow with the most of the rest of Europe on their holidays, but I was one busy, busy bee. Overall, it was a super productive month with a lot of work finally getting the attention I just […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: July 2017
It’s now more than a year after I moved to Bordeaux. If we’d stuck to the original plan, I’d be packed up and moving to England right about now. But life’s funny that way. New opportunities present themselves and I guess you can’t ever really be sure what doors will open. And so, Bordeaux in […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: June 2017
This month marked one year since I moved to Bordeaux. And what a year it was. At times I felt like that year flew by, yet it also feels like I’ve lived a lifetime in the last year. I was never under any misconceptions that moving to a foreign country would be easy. But I […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: May 2017
It’s ironic I write my latest edition of Bordeaux in 365 Bottles today. Because exactly eight years ago today, Tim, Emma, Angel and I started our journey to move to Italy. It took us four days to move the animals by airplane, since there are strict temperature regulations and regulations for hours animals can actually […]
Bordeaux in 365 Bottles: April 2017
Hello, May! I’m not sure what happened to April. It was like I blinked, it was over and it was time for another Bordeaux in 365 Bottles. If you read my March update, you know I was feeling pretty down and out. Quite of few of you got in touch with me about it. As […]
