Category Archives: expat

my experiences with becoming a UK resident

Me and the sea

By jEN | Published: July 19, 2010

The beach, climbing the rocks, breathing the sea air, feeling the sand give slightly under my feet, feeling the sun warm my body, feeling my muscles flex and conquer rocks and boulders and hills and hikes, hearing the gulls and tiny cliff birds, squealing when a surprise surge splashes my feet, watching for seals, spotting [...]

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Happy Fourth, America

By jEN | Published: July 4, 2010

Hope you’re all having a great weekend! Love to my friends and family in the country of my birth. xoxo

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Sunset over Crackington Haven

By jEN | Published: April 2, 2010

We’re guessing that as the months pass, the sunset will be over the ocean. “This is where we live,” is a phrase Neil and I say to each other (in a slightly dreamy tone) nearly every day and we mean it as a gentle and blissfully content alternative to saying, “Well, shit, goddamn. We live [...]

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Today was moving day

By jEN | Published: March 23, 2010

The new house feels like home now. Actually, it felt like home even without all our boxes of stuff. That’s how right this place is. We are tired but very happy.

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