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The Mexican Art Gift Guide of Handcrafts You Love
Has this ever happened to you? You spend your vacation some place fabulous, surrounded by the colors, sights and smells of ancient traditions. You want to share your new love of this culture with your friends and family back home, so you pick up some souvenirs for them; some earrings for your neighbor, a handbag for your co-worker, decorative plates for your mom. But once you are home, you look over the unique souvenirs you bought, and you are too in love to part with them. Admit it. You’ve done that at least once or twice after coming back from a vacation. I know I have! Sometimes We Love…
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The Best Travel Books on Expat Life
We don’t regret moving to a new country, but our expat life wasn’t rainbows and butterflies every day. We struggled with the language, setting up internet and cable, getting lost with Google maps and even writing a claim for a car accident. Most of the stories you hear from expats are all the wonderful “better quality of life” stuff, but I’m sure they had obstacles to reach that point. Our research on finding the best place to live started with a subscription to International Living. This magazine and website prints real stories from real people living in other countries around the world. From big cities to small villages, it’s been…
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The Perfect Gifts for Wine Lovers
Wine lovers love to share their passion of wine with us. It could be a bottle of Rioja Gran Reserva from Spain or an Italian Barolo from their summer road trip through Piedmont. Wine lovers are picky and while they will smile and be happy with any gift, you want to get them something more memorable, maybe even useful. So how do you find the perfect gift that is 1) usable and 2) affordable for a wine lover? We’ve put together a few suggestions that are stylish and functional that can please any wine lover. Disclosure: The links below are affiliate links which means we will receive a small commission…
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Give the Gift of A Once in a Lifetime Experience
Sometimes it’s hard to find the “perfect” gift for someone. Believe me, I’ve been there. Tom and I have been together for ten years, but we still have a hard time shopping for each other. What we have found that works for us is a travel “experience”. This year, don’t stress out about what to put under the tree. Give the gift of a once in a lifetime experience to your favorite love one. Take our trip to Lima recently. Neither one of us had been to Lima (a present for both of us). Lima had some of the world’s best restaurants (present for him, but I enjoyed it, too).…
