Comments on: About me & the blog https://expatpartnersurvival.com The one-stop site for "trailing spouses." Wed, 19 Jul 2017 08:42:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ By: clara@expatpartnersurvival.com https://expatpartnersurvival.com/about-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-4645 Sun, 03 Apr 2016 09:44:22 +0000 /?page_id=86#comment-4645 Hi Joanne – have you seen the blog by Seychelles Mama? https://www.seychellesmama.com/

She would be a great person to contact about moving to Seychelles, both with practical advice and some feedback about what is really like to live there. My own personal advice is that moving somewhere like the Seychelles is rarely what you think it would be like – I am not saying don’t do it but be realistic about what is is like living on a small island. We lived in St Lucia for just off two years and I found it hard, very hard – a lot, lot harder than SA. However my kids were a lot younger and I am definitely not suited to small island life! It suits some, it doesn’t suit others. But just be realistic about what it can be like to live somewhere that it is very hard to escape from!

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]]> By: Joanne Farah https://expatpartnersurvival.com/about-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-4643 Sat, 02 Apr 2016 13:31:09 +0000 /?page_id=86#comment-4643 Hi I’m enjoying your BLOG very much thank you. I’m also a foreigner in SA (living in Bryanston, Sandton) I’m from Sydney and it took me 71/2 years to stop feeling depressed about living here. I find the culture and people very different to my own tribe. I also lived in London for 8 years and loved it. Any hoo I have 3 daughters 3,7 and 9 and we are thinking of moving to the Seychelles for a year. We are thinking of home schooling as our children are in the Steiner Warldorf system and entering main stream as this stage would be too stressful. Our idea is too bring the family together and find more meaningful rhythm – not sure if we are being too idealistic here – but I look forward to any advice you could pass on. Additionally I am having difficulty trying to find long term rentals at a reasonable price as we will unfortunatly be travelling on ZAR. Keep well Jx

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]]> By: clara@expatpartnersurvival.com https://expatpartnersurvival.com/about-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1720 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:56:03 +0000 /?page_id=86#comment-1720 I should be stonger at not following the blogs I won’t read. As for your last comment….I hope you won’t die! But I totally know what you mean. It’s neverending!

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]]> By: Ellen Hawley https://expatpartnersurvival.com/about-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1718 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:33:22 +0000 /?page_id=86#comment-1718 Understood. I try not to follow blogs that I’m not really going to read. I mean, what’s the point otherwise? I do dip in fairly regularly to some I don’t follow, but that seems marginally more manageable.

What I didn’t know was that publicizing the book by starting a blog also meant publicizing the blog. Which means finding other social media that need to be publicized. I feel like the old woman who swallowed a fly.

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]]> By: clara@expatpartnersurvival.com https://expatpartnersurvival.com/about-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1715 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:44:24 +0000 /?page_id=86#comment-1715 It really does! Someone warned me about this but I didn’t really believe them. I think what you don’t think about when you start blogging is the interaction. I thought I would just be writing posts and moving on. I wish I had time for more interaction – I always feel guilty about all those blogs that I follow that I don’t get the chance to read and comment on. But there are only so many hours in the day and as you know, marketing a book is a LOT of work!

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]]> By: Ellen Hawley https://expatpartnersurvival.com/about-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1714 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:21:44 +0000 /?page_id=86#comment-1714 I also started blogging as a way to help publicize a book–in my case a novel. But blogging takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it?

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]]> By: clara@expatpartnersurvival.com https://expatpartnersurvival.com/about-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1107 Sun, 10 May 2015 12:07:15 +0000 /?page_id=86#comment-1107 Thank you Rosa. I have been to Barcelona, I’ve lived in Spain and Gibraltar so spent a bit of time I in that part of the world. Lovely country… We particularly love the food and wine!

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]]> By: Rosa Ave Fénix https://expatpartnersurvival.com/about-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1106 Sun, 10 May 2015 10:36:35 +0000 /?page_id=86#comment-1106 I’ve known about you through Curts’ blog, and I guess yours is very good as well. I’m Spanish living in Barcelona, have you been here? if you haven’t … do come!!!!!
I’d like to get your entrances.

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]]> By: Nin S. https://expatpartnersurvival.com/about-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 05:54:57 +0000 /?page_id=86#comment-552 Hi Clara, thank you for following me, and it seems that we had similar blog genre, partially about expat life. Only that I am not a writer like you. Nice blog by the way…

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]]> By: Expat vs Language Part 1 | Silver Lining Mama https://expatpartnersurvival.com/about-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 19:28:17 +0000 /?page_id=86#comment-447 […] the first one to be more extensive than I originally planned. Do head over to Clara’s blog, The Expat Partners’ Survival Guide, for more of her memorable journeys. She also invites bloggers to share their own travel […]

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