We have officially been back in the US for one month. Prior to this, we were living in London for the past 14 months (read about it here, here, and here). I actually hadn’t been on US soil since January 2019, crazy to think I spent 5 months away from America. I naively thought that since we were moving back to our house (we kept
Dear London, Farewell and Thank You
Dear London, I said no to moving to your city with a vengeance. There was no way you could be so brilliant that you could outshine our comfortable life in Charleston with our dogs, the house we were making a home, family, friends, and my thriving business. It’s a lot to ask a lady to gamble all that on a city she’s never even been
London Favorites :: Best Time of Year to Visit + Events
Lately, so many people have reached out about planning their trip to London. That makes me so happy! It’s such a special place to me now. One question I get a lot is – What time of year should you visit London? Now that we’ve been here for 4 seasons (see our 6-month recap here), I have to say that the Spring (starting in April) is hands down
London Favorites :: Day Trips
Welcome back to my “London Favorites” series! If you didn’t see the first two posts you can click here for the first and here for the second. I actually bumped this topic forward on the list because recently I’ve gotten so many requests for day trips. I’m going to share mainly the ones we have actually done, but I’ll also let you guys in on
How to Become An Expat with Western Union
Western Union recently reached out to work with me and 12 other fellow bloggers to answer questions and learn more about how to become an expat. Their blog post went live today (please click here and check it out!), so I thought I would share not just my one tip that they chose for their blog, but my answers to all their questions! First –
London Favorites :: Places to Eat
Welcome to another “London Favorites” post! If you missed the first post on our favorite Christmas things to do, you can go see that here and pin it for later! I’m excited to have the second round of our 10 series blog posts be on FOOD! We get this question all the time and now Ryan and I are sharing all our favorites below –
London Favorites :: Christmas Fun!
You guys wanted to see allll the posts on London when I asked on Stories, which makes me so dang happy. If you can’t tell, I’ve fallen in love with this city! So I started typing up a “favorites” list and had Ryan chime in and before we knew it, we had like a 50-page blog post. It was information overload! Here’s what we decided would
A Best Friends Trip to Paris
A month or so ago, I looked at Ryan and said, for my birthday this year I’d love to take a solo trip for a weekend. Paris was the ideal location (duh!) since it’s only a 2-hour train ride away, but I also was happy with the little pub a town away. Just some time to think all my own thoughts, eat whenever I pleased,
Thoughts on Living Abroad for 6 Months
Well guys, it has officially been six months since we moved to London. It feels like an entire lifetime to be honest with you. In both great and not so great ways! I get lots of questions about our time here so far, so I thought I would share some of our experience now that we’re almost 1/2 way through and to document this crazy
Provence, France 5-Day Itinerary
Provence has my heart y’all. Have you ever been to a place and just felt like, “this is it, I was meant to be here”!? May sound dramatic, but I’m not kidding. The southern Luberon region of France completely captured me from day one. Ryan and I are already plotting retirement plans ;). After so many requests, here is our 5-day itinerary. I kept it as