the melbourne expat wife

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  • What it is like as an expat during a pandemic

    TLDR: Fucked. I think it is safe to say that the entire world right now is up shit creek without a paddle. So while I sit here with my second Moscow Mule for the evening, here are the brief things… Continue reading

  • Untitled

    It’s been a while. I feel like that sentence has lost all meaning since that is pretty much how I start all blogs these days. It was never my intent to have this as a half arsed thing to add… Continue reading

  • What no one tells you about moving abroad

    If you google most travel blogs, most of them created by expats or travels, most have a common theme. Happiness. Perfectness. #livingmybestlife. An Instagram search of that hashtag alone is enough to make give my facial muscles a good workout. … Continue reading

  • Husband: write a post so you’ll stop rambling to me

    I’ve been a little MIA, partly because work has kept me busy and partly because I’ve started studying again and widely underestimated how much brain power I would need to use and have therefore been unable to string a sentence… Continue reading

  • Culture Shock 101

    I always imagined Germany was like straight out of a fairy tale. Oversized princess ready castles, long flowing rivers and trees that look they are in a permanent state Autumn. While some parts of Germany look like the above stereotype,… Continue reading

  • 6 months of tears, must be learning a foreign language

    For anyone who is looking at relocating to another country with a different primary language, I would strongly recommend a language school. Was it hard? Fuck yes. Have I learnt enough to be able to manage day to day? Absolutely.… Continue reading

  • Working in a foreign language

    Let me start by saying, anyone who can speak two, three, four, five+ languages, holy shitballs. I can easily say that learning a second language has by far been one of the hardiest thing I have ever done in my… Continue reading

  • #metoo

    Honestly, I’m not sure how long this post will stay up but in light of the #metoo movement, I want people to know that they are not alone. A lot of people know, a lot of people have made assumptions… Continue reading

  • ‘Ask me where I come from, I’ll say a different land’

    Everyone thinks that living as an expat is this incredibly glamorous life, filled with nothing but constant adventures and new experiences. And while it would be easy to portray that, especially with Instagram and socials that allow people to only… Continue reading

  • Why we eloped

    This topic was the reason I decided to create a blog. Eloping. I have no idea why in 2017, this is still seen as such a taboo topic. Maybe not taboo but it does have a general negative connotation associated… Continue reading