Internet Travel Crushes Of 2009

I’m not one to end the year with regrets, but yesterday’s post about the amazing travelers I met in 2009 got me thinking about those whom I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting. So instead of making this a shoulda-woulda-coulda post, let’s just call it my 2010 bucket list of Internet Crushes I [...]

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2009 Travel Hall of Famers, Miss Expatria Edition

As 2009 winds down, I want to do a special kind of year-end summary – one in which I introduce you to some amazing travel people I’ve met during these last 12 months. Some of them I’ve gotten to know only online, and some I now know in real life – but all of them [...]

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Epic 2009 Travel Photos!

My West Coast Gay Mafia don alerted me to this fun thing people have been doing on their blogs this month, and I thought I’d give it a shot – literally! I’ll be posting 12 pictures below, one for each month of the year, as a kind of photo chronicle of a year in the [...]

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Want To Live In France? Read This First.

“I spend most of my year in the South of France,” I tell people when they ask where I live. They swoon. I smile and change the subject. Why? Because of days like today. I set out to run a few quick errands before starting my work day: Drop off things at the tailor, pick [...]

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Picture Post: Christmas Decorations In The South Of France

Yesterday I showed you the shops of Montpellier all dolled up for Christmas. Tonight, let’s take a walk around town and see what’s happening!

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Julie & Julia: A Blogging Foodie In France Weighs In

I was excited to see Julie & Julia*. After all, it had three things going for it that are near and dear to my heart: Paris Food Blogging And, it did have all three of those things in it. Enough of #1 for me to recommend it to someone who loves Tumblr pictures of the [...]

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Picture Post: French Shop Windows At Christmas Time

Say what you want about Montpellier – and you know I do every chance I get – but the town really is gorgeous, and at Christmas time the shops put on quite a show. So, take a break from fighting the mall crowds and sigh with me at the precious, won’t you?

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What Google Goggles Might Mean For Travelers

First, please allow me to say that I am totally OK with Google taking over the world. There are those who are not OK with this. I am not one of them, and Google Goggles is one of the many, many reasons why. While on a bus in New York, I observed someone point at [...]

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My 3 Best Kept Travel Secrets

I’ve been tagged by the Artist At Large to divulge my three best kept travel secrets. I’m horrible at keeping travel secrets, so faithful readers will no doubt remember these. But without further ado, let’s get to it! Oh, but before I do, I need to tag five people whose travel secrets I want brought [...]

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Miss Expatria’s Fun With Search Terms

Darlings! Now that you know I am back safe and sound in the South of France, wasn’t my little tale just delightful? As I clean up my desk and get ready to give you all the travel news and opinion that fits, I thought we’d do a bit of fun with search terms today. I [...]

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My Trip Home, Part Three: In Which Lenny Briscoe Finds My Mangled Remains

(If you’re joining this saga already in progress, please go back and read parts one and two, found here and here respectively.) So, there I was, in the backseat of a taxi with the Spanish driver and the Middle Eastern passenger in the front seat. It was inconceivable to me that for a majority of [...]

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My Trip Home, Part Two: Why I Needed A Sherpa To Cross The Border

(If you’re just joining this saga in progress, please go back and read my first installment, My Trip Home, Part One: Stateside Chaos At The Delta Terminal.) I’ve spent seven years bungling my way through variations of several languages, but after three months back in the States I felt like I had lost it all. [...]

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