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Kathleen Peddicord
Articles by Kathleen Peddicord
- Language boot camp—learning to speak French in Paris
Posted on February 23, 2008 by Kathleen Peddicord
The young, blonde Swede is barely older than my daughter, but she has me trembling beneath my beret.
This month, I’m doing something I’ve sworn I would do for the past three years:
I’m trying to learn to speak French.
- 2008 Quality of Life Index
Posted on January 2, 2008 by Kathleen Peddicord
The 2008 Quality of Life Index from International Living…
- Five Fun Things to Do With $1,000–or Less
Posted on October 15, 2007 by Kathleen Peddicord
Your dollars are shrinking, and the economic outlook is uncertain. Still…you’d like to get away…have an adventure…start a new life…invest outside the States.
What do you do if your budget is small but your thinking is big?
- Welcome to Elysium House
Posted on August 8, 2007 by Kathleen Peddicord
Nine years ago this month, I traveled with a group of International Living readers on a Discovery Tour to Ireland. Each of us came with an agenda–to shop for a retirement home, to consider an investment in the ever-expanding Celtic Tiger market, to see the green fields and thatched-roof cottages of the Emerald Isle firsthand…
- Change your life in 2006-from Panama to Thailand, here’s how two IL readers are already living the dream
Posted on May 23, 2007 by Kathleen Peddicord
What if you had the chance to change your life entirely? Imagine that you could live anywhere in the world…all or part of the year. Where would you go? What would you do?
- Return of the King
Posted on April 23, 2007 by Kathleen Peddicord
In the summer of 1937, in the Byzantine city of Sofia, the future King of Bulgaria was born. Church bells rang and gun salutes boomed across the land in celebration…amnesties were granted…and an extra mark was added to every schoolchild’s exam.
- Honduras’ Mainland Frontier
Posted on April 17, 2007 by Kathleen Peddicord
Your dollars are worth considerably less than they were this time last year…still, you’re day dreaming of summer travel adventures. If you fear your imagination may be bigger than your budget…see this month’s print issue of International Living (below). There we introduce you to 11 places where your U.S. greenbacks still go a long way…destinations where, the devaluing dollar notwithstanding, you can afford to arrange the trip of a lifetime.
- The Intrepid Traveler’s Little Black Book
Posted on November 1, 2005 by Kathleen Peddicord
“Intrepid” might be the best word to describe the traveler who sets out to explore the destinations we feature in the November issue of International Living–especially if he travels in search not only of fun, but also with an eye to opportunity for profit.
- 25 Things We Wish Someone Had Told Us Before We Moved Overseas
Posted on May 1, 2005 by Kathleen Peddicord
We fill these pages every month with tempting details of opportunities abroad. Places to visit…adventures to consider…ideas for fun and for profit.
After 25 years covering this beat, however, we’ve accumulated considerable experience not only at all you might want to do in foreign locales…but also at things you might do well to avoid. For example:
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