Oh Ireland, how you have gotten in to my heart and under my skin.  Your rolling hills, cliffs, castles, cathedral ruins, soda bread, seafood chowder, Irish stew and your kind people.    I could do without this crazy windy, rainy weather that has woken me up at odd hours,...

If you're an expat, maybe you can relate to a few or all of these.  If you haven't lived abroad, this list might give you insight into how mixed up expats feel sometimes.  And I mean mixed up in the most positive sense.  It's definitely a life of mixed emotions and feeling like...

In 2005 we celebrated our 11th anniversary by taking a trip to Ireland.   I chose to share Ireland today for Bonnie's Travel Tuesday since we're headed back there the end of this week. This time we're taking Jerry's parents and our kids and we couldn't be more excited! What...

Hi ya friends!! One of the things I love about blogging is the connections I've made with bloggers.  One of those very blogger friends became a true, in real life friend, when we moved to Austria.  It made my time in Vienna that much more enjoyable.  She took me around to her favorite...

I'm back with another installment of my new series, Back in Time, featuring the places we lived and visited in our early years of moving abroad.  If you missed the first one, you can find it here.  Please remember that my photos are about 13 years old and our digital camera held about,...