Follow Your Dream: You Only Live Once

My article, Live Your Dream in a Material World, struck a chord with many of you. In it, I described how we sold most of our belongings in order to make our dream come true and move to Central America. Now I want to share the first page of my book about our experiences. It [...]

What Can You Give Up To Live Your Dream?

What We Can Happily Live Without Flash Cars We have an old no-name type car. Who gives a flying fart anyway? However, don’t let your kids use your car as a climbing frame like we did in Costa Rica or the roof rack will fall off one day while you’re driving along. Ooops. Fancy Clothes [...]

Live Your Dream in a Material World

Things I’ve Given Up To Live My Dream Giving things up sounds like such miserable, hair shirt stuff, but even the thought of writing this article makes me happy. Somehow downsizing my life so that I can achieve my life goals isn’t much of a sacrifice at all. In fact, it’s liberated me. Granted I’ve [...]

Why do so many people move to, or want to move to, Australia?

The Advantages of Living in Australia I think most people move to Australia for the weather, especially Brits and Kiwis. Well, I did anyway! I enjoy the healthy outdoorsy lifestyle. I think what’s great is the diversity here – you can choose to live in a big cosmopolitan city or out in the hippy hills [...]

Word Press delighted to host In the Hot Spot

Thanks for visiting. This blog has been relocated from Blogger to Word Press. Thank you to all the lovely Word Press people who have made this possible! Please read on for the latest news and information on moving to and living in Australia. Thanks for reading, feel free to add your comments below. Good luck [...]

Gold Coast Theme Parks – White Water World

Learning to be like an Aussie and Speak Aussie Last Saturday we went to the Gold Coast on a bus trip with our local Surf Life Saving Club to celebrate the end of the Nippers season, where children are schooled in the fine art of surf life saving. This was the final bash to reward [...]

New to Noosa and enjoying all it has to offer

Free activities huge draw card for family with Scottish ancestry Before moving to Noosa we lived in the south of Costa Rica where there were more monkeys than people and the only family day out would be the odd cabalgata, or horse parade. Cabalgatas are generally typified by the number of drunken cowboys riding their [...]

Moving abroad to Australia from Costa Rica and New Zealand and a foray into online grocery shopping

Surfing for Salami Sticks Last week I was also trying to sort out my grocery shopping. Basically it has been taking up too much of my time since I moved to Australia and I need to get that sorted out. Still, at least I don’t get lost on the way to the shops anymore. But [...]

Migrating to and Networking in a Foreign Country

Making friends but Not Exactly Influencing People I do confess that last week I was feeling a touch lonesome and missing my far flung amigos. So this week I’ve vowed to take a more active role in making new contacts, meeting people and maybe even making some new friends! To do this I have settled [...]

Typing, Running, Shipping Stuff to Australia and Childcare

Post Traumatic Typing Syndrome There is one cause of great frustration in my life at the moment and that is my typing. I actually thought I was quite a good typist to begin with, reasonably fast, but I made a lot of mistakes. So I decided to follow the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing CD ROM [...]