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Tag: expats

Posted on December 16, 2019November 2, 2021

It’s the final countdown

Warsaw Besides the Obvious

How to spend your last days in a country that you’re about to leave for good? I was writing down my thoughts 7 months ago... when I actually moved out from Warsaw and change my address for sunny Barcelona. It might be (or not) useful for someone who is going through the same one day. …

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Posted on December 3, 2019November 2, 2021

The last good-bye?

Barcelona Besides the obvious

We’ll meet again for sure! Or just simply not… and it’s fine too! A last good-bye. I’m already after many last meetings, last coffees, farewell parties, last hugs… repeating the same last conversation for hundred times… And then the last hug and the last sentence: ‘All the very best & good luck in your new …

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Posted on November 30, 2019November 2, 2021

About the ‘shiny’ expat life

Warsaw Besides the Obvious

A shiny expat life and its stages. When I was a kid and my parents were traveling abroad without me and my brother, and when they came back home and told us all the stories from their trip and brought us Toblerone (!) that was not available in Hungary then (I’m talking about the years …

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