The Anti-Attractions: Awesome Abandoned Places around the World

Admiring the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel? Check. Taking a selfie in Angkor Wat? Been there, done that. Petting baby tortoises in the Galapagos Islands? Definitely on the bucket list. The world seems to have become smaller than ever for avid globetrotters. Sometimes, it’s hard not to feel blasé about the wonders we’ve seen. Perhaps […]

InterNations Insider Tips: Five Destinations in Historical Budapest

InterNations Founder & Co-CEO Malte Zeeck shares five personal sightseeing tips for what many consider to be the most beautiful city in Europe — Budapest. I was excited to be going to Budapest as I had not been there for ten years. Luckily, I was able to stay at some friends’ apartment in the heart […]

Founder’s Diary: Budapest

InterNations Founder & Co-CEO Malte Zeeck tells us all about his recent trip to visit the InterNations Budapest Community, a vibrant expat event in a charming metropolis. I hadn’t been to Budapest in a decade, but after ten years of absence, the city impressed me all over again with its sheer beauty. As I was […]

Managing a Split Identity as an Expat

When you walk off that airplane as an expat for the first time, do you realize how your life is about to change? You may have heard stories, met other expats, and even had friends who were expats from other countries, but when your own turn comes isn’t it different? Afterward you go through all […]

App, App, Hooray! — InterNations for Android and iOS

“Is there an InterNations app?” That is the question which InterNations Founder & Co-CEO Malte Zeeck has heard most frequently from our members when visiting our official events in many of the 390 InterNations Communities around the world. Now we can loudly answer with a resounding ‘yes’. We are happy to present the first version […]

Nine Years of InterNations — Come Celebrate with Us

It is September, the month when the seasons are slowly starting to turn, with crispy brown leaves in the northern and longer, milder days in the southern hemisphere. But it is also the time when we celebrate our birthday. In 2007, our founders started InterNations with not much more than an idea about a global […]

Nine Birthday Wishes — From Us to You

Honor the International Day of Charity — Get into Volunteering!

Volunteering is not just a way to give back to your local community, but also a brilliant way to learn new things and to meet other incredible people. It will give you the chance to step outside of your comfort zone and try new things while helping others in need. But taking the step into […]

InterNations Volunteers Strive for Peace in their Communities

On 21 September we celebrate the International Day of Peace, a day which seeks to strengthen the co-existence between not just countries and nations, but humans as individuals. Peace is an idea that sometimes fades from our minds; however, it is vital to the sustainability of life for future generations. The International Day of Peace, […]

How to Be Mindful of Your Mental Health as an Expat

It’s no secret that I love to travel. On my own, with friends and partners: I have lived, worked, holidayed and adventured in countless locations around Australia and around the globe. It was the challenge of relocating to another country that I found much more difficult. In 2005 I moved to Bristol after traveling in […]