There are a few travel tricks for trips to Europe to help teens have an awesome time in the moment—and one to remember long after they get home.
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A successful and happy experience for everyone, guests and hosts, primarily hinges on how well you’ve communicated before your guests arrive.
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Check out my list of the best products and services I discovered in 2021, along with a few ideas for gifts that I found before 2021 but still absolutely adore.
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We tried to spend as much of the 2019 holidays in our festive holiday pajamas as possible.
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In which Arnaud explains his perspective on moving to the United States from France—and then back to Europe (albeit to Switzerland).
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Five years into their stay in Chile, at the time of their second visa renewal, Patricia and her husband—U.S. citizens—had an a-ha moment: They didn’t want to leave. Chile had become home.
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A year ago tomorrow, Arnaud and I got married. (In fact, a year ago today, we had our civil ceremony.) I have noted the following surprises and adjustments.
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With an eye to seeing family on this side of the Atlantic and the bonus of seeing Amsterdam for the first time, I decided to make a weekend trip.
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A chronicle of daily events for the week starting June 24, 2019, and ending June 30, 2019.
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For our honeymoon, we split our time between two Caribbean islands and two resorts. Here’s what we found at Jade Mountain in St. Lucia and Hermitage Bay in Antigua.
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For anyone planning a wedding in Normandy and the Loire Valley in France, read our takes on the venues we visited.
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Let me share a few of my experiences to shorten your learning curve. (Because yeah. Organizing big events involves enough stress already.)
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In which I have to get a certificate of celibacy notarized, we coach my brother in the French language, and Arnaud pulls off a miracle.
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All expats, soon enough after they meet, ask each other: What brought you here?
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Even siblings who never got past the punching stage gained a lot from the more-than-one-child family dynamic.
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Though I won’t pull back the hood and show all my inner workings here, this website gives me a good place to highlight an insight from each month’s postmortem. How’d I do in March 2019?
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A brief summary and pictures from the weekend when Arnaud Chevallier and Leslie Farnsworth got married in Normandy, France.
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As much as I enjoy living independently, having no tribe has its hazards.
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