Got the Winter Blues?

The days are getting darker, and temperatures are dropping fast, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. It was only yesterday that the staff of the Munich-based InterNations headquarters showed up to work all bundled up in woolen scarves and sweaters. The first snowfall had taken everyone by surprise, with winter arriving as early in southern […]

We Can Be Heroes, Just for One Day!

Unlike what the title, a quote from the famous 1977 hit “Heroes”, suggests, the InterNations Team didn’t attend a David Bowie concert lately. However, we did manage to assemble several intrepid heroes and heroines to take part in the Heldenrennen 2012. The Heldenrennen or Heroes Race is a series of charity runs hosted in various […]

Go East, Expat?

Work in Singapore, raise your kids in Hong Kong, and retire in India! That would be an ideal curriculum for internationally mobile, high-earning individuals, at least according to HSBC. Recently, in early October, HSBC published the long-awaited results of the fifth Expat Explorer study. For the past few years, the international banking company has conducted […]

Five Ways to Water Where You Are

InterNations member Juanita Kwarteng, the creator of 1000culturalencounters.com, has written this splendid article on how important it is for expats and global nomads to not lose sight of what’s right in front of us and to make the most of where we are. Enjoy! I saw this quote recently: “The grass isn’t greener on the […]

The Lost Restaurants of Tehran

InterNations member Philip muses about a gone-by era, when Tehran was a hip and open city and foreigners and locals frequented the same downtown restaurants with their European names and flair… Interesting title you may say, and how can restaurants be lost. Well I don’t mean lost in the common sense, it isn’t the kind […]