What happens when you pack up your life, including three children in Australia, and take them on a year long US road trip? I’d like to say magic. But I’m thinking that it’d be more like 365 days worth of swings and roundabouts. And an adventure of kid wrangling and…
Moving overseas is almost easy nowadays – from the bunch of expat groups and businesses ready to give you advice, to organisations ready to help with the visa process. But that’s mostly if you’re using the well-worn path of the common westernised expat countries. How many of us have really,…
Lots of Australians make the expat pilgrimage to London at least once in their lives (myself included). But what happens when an Aussie leaves the comforts of an English-speaking country? Tasmanian Kristy started her expat journey as an English teacher in London, but love took her to the Netherlands. Kristy…
From an absolute outsider’s perspective, Australian actor and writer Adam Zwar is the quintessential laidback Aussie – all cricket and footy references with the occasional Tim Winton-esque thoughtful tangent thrown in for good measure. Born and raised in Cairns, he was a journalist for the Sunday Herald Sun before moving into…
It took a move from the country NSW town of Gunnedah to the United States to turn young Aussie Chloe Cox into a rodeo star making her mark on the international circuit. Despite the fact that her parents both rodeoed in Australia – her dad was a bullfighter and her…
This is a guest post by Aussie expat Melanie, who inspires expats over at her blog, The Wandering Darlings. She writes about her her life in the UK with her British fiance and their bunny Bruce. Here she writes about the joys and difficulties of cross-national relationships. Find her on Facebook and Instagram for more…
This is a guest post by Aussie expat Jess Mizzi, who has written an awesome collection of travel itineraries over at her blog, Expat Getaways. Jess worked training tour guides in Cairns before her husband got a job in Hong Kong and the couple upped-sticks. Find her on Facebook and Instagram for…
This is a guest post by Aussie expat Lara, who writes about her life in the Ukraine over at Lost Lara. She’s also lived the expat life in London. Are you wondering what it’d be like to live in a town where you don’t speak the language and no one…
