Thursday, 31 March 2016

The challenges of being an expat parent

Posted by Anne Canaveera on Thursday, March 31, 2016 in expat life, parenting

Little trip to the beach as a family I'm trying to organise the summer holidays at the moment. The plan is to drop the kids to my parents in France in early July, they'll stay over for a month and we'll join them for a 2 weeks holidays in August. The price of the flight to take them over is extortionate,...

Ze French accent

Posted by Anne Canaveera on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 in expat life

If you're French, how many times did you hear that comment: "I love the French accent, it's so sexy / lovely / exotic / glamorous / refined / romantic..."? As crazy as it sounds, one thing I really wanted to get rid of when I moved to Ireland was my French accent. I don't know why, but I always...

Paddy's day memories

Posted by Anne Canaveera on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 in cultural differences

A Cead Mile Failte in Dublin Airport Believe it or not but my first St Patrick's day celebration wasn't in Ireland. I must have been around 16 or 17 and my village organised a Paddy's day ceili so I went along with friends. There was Guinness, salt & vinegar crisps (I don't remember if they...

What if?

Posted by Anne Canaveera on Thursday, March 10, 2016 in expat life

It would have been harder to blog without that as well... I've always wondered what my blog would have looked like if I had started it as soon as I moved to Ireland. This is completely hypothetical of course, for the simple reason that blogs didn't exist in 2002. I could have seen...