Tips for Moving Your Four-Legged Friends Overseas

Posted on: Jun 28, 2010

Although I had to deal with the inevitable storage issues, over-stuffed suitcases and tearful goodbyes when I embarked on my Italian adventure, I (luckily??) didn’t have a four-legged friend to bring along.

All of my expat friends weren’t so lucky.

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Marcus of Umbria Author Justine van der Leun and a Book *Giveaway*

Posted on: Jun 14, 2010

Many expats-especially those of us who fancy ourselves writers, dream of publishing a book about our experiences. One ex-expat in Umbria, Justine van der Leun, has done just that.

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MBV Phones Home: How I Stay in Touch from Italy

Posted on: May 24, 2010

One of the hardest things for me as an expectant expat was the idea of not talking to my family every day … and of course, by family, I mean my mom.

In the US we talked two or three times a day and I knew the costs of maintaining that habit would be prohibitively expensive once I lived in Calabria.

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