Live A Good Life.

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you [...]

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Miss Expatria Wants To Hear From YOU

Over the next couple of weeks, I have to get down to bidness on an exciting new project that I can’t wait to tell you about. I’m not sure how it’s going to affect the creative energy I have for this space, though, and I don’t want to go radio silent. So, I’m opening it [...]

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What The Volcano Has Taught Me About Travel Marketing

When I started working with Cal – even before we began dating – he would invite me to brainstorm with him whenever he got a new Internet marketing copywriting gig. After six years, this brainstorming has become a habit whenever either of us gets a writing gig. In fact, it’s become such a habit, we [...]

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Another Installment of Miss Expatria’s Fun With Search Terms

Yes, boys and girls, once again it’s time for me to indulge in one of my guiltiest pleasures – checking to see how people came to ye olde Miss Expatria blog, which you’d never know is about travel from these stats. Sigh. There’s a bonus Italian pronunciation guide at the end of this post, though, [...]

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Why The Mornings Made Me Move To Europe

To say that I’m not a morning person is generous. I am a monster for the first hour of consciousness each day – and I wake up without an alarm clock. Give me even a minute less than eight hours’ sleep, or force me awake with an insistent beeping noise, and I am a barely [...]

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Montpellier Spring Report

It’s springtime here in the South of France, which means your intrepid Miss Expatria has started shedding layers and lifted her head once again to feel the warm Mediterranean sun on her ghostly pale face. Let’s see what’s happening around town after a winter’s hibernation!

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Travel Advice That Annoys Me

I’ve been looking at a lot of travel advice recently in preparation for a pretty awesome gig that I’ll tell you about as soon as I can. In doing so, I’ve found that so much travel advice misses the mark – by a country mile. Below are my top three offender categories of travel advice.

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Rooms With A View – Of The Sea

If a hotel room doesn’t have a view of the sea, why bother?

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Public Service Announcement From My Mom

My mom wanted to remind everyone who asks her for my blog URL that you don’t have to forget and then remember to check my site – you can subscribe! What does that mean for you? Well, it means that every time I post something, it arrives in your email inbox. There’s a link on [...]

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Italian Easter Lunch For The Win

After cooking up a hamburger I found in the back of our minuscule freezer that was recently unearthed due to defrosting, I received an email from Marco: today 4 lunch: Tortellini Garganelli with sausage and mushrooms Roast beef Fried lamb Saltimbocca alla romana Fried artichokes Fried potatoes Peppers Tiramisu Strawberries with fresh cream now @ [...]

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True Travel Romance

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Train Travel Pictures: Sunrise to Sunset

On Wednesday I made the trip yet again by train from Rome to Montpellier. And yet again, I marveled at the sights out my window and wondered how I could ever bitch about such a magnificent way to travel.

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