Kids with Diplomatic Immunity

• On the road again.... kind of. 2 years ago Tap, tap, tap…. Is this blog still on?  It’s time to slowly brush the dust off this old travel/expat blog – it’s been a year (a year!) since our last trip in Taiwan so it was time, for yet again …
• Home 3 years ago Well, dear readers, this has surely been an interesting year. If you had asked us in January what our plans for 2020 were, it all seemed so straightforward…. wrap up language training in Taiwan by June, pack up our possessions, …
• Lost in Translation 4 years ago Having lived abroad pretty much the majority of my life, I am used to things getting lost in translation. For instance, there was that time in my native Germany in the 1980’s when I worked with a language instructor from …
• Social Embrace 4 years ago We’ve been hearing about “social distancing” so much over the past few weeks as this pandemic is shaking up life as we once knew it. Of course it’s natural for us to feel many different reactions and emotions as we sort out how to deal with this crisis: grief and longing for our old lives...
• Rolling with It 4 years ago Well, we made it … 3 weeks of homeschooling later and I think we can safely agree that I am not meant to be teaching 5th grade writing or figure out this new way of learning math.  A lot has happened in the past few weeks and I am sure if you’ve been as glued to the news as we have over here,...

• Parents' Survival Guide for Vienna, Austria: Top 8 Reasons to be an Expat with Kids Here Expat Blog Awards 2013 Although you may have heard that Austria is not a great place to live with kids because Austrians tend to be “kinder to their dogs than to their own children,” I am here to tell it’s not true. Not true at all. Ok, so maybe some Austrians are a...

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