It doesn’t happen every day that I am proud to tell you something about myself. But today I am happy to announce that I am nominated, together with a few million others, to be the next “Best Husband in the World“. Do not ask me how I know this, but a special friend of...
Being an Expat in the Philippines sometimes is difficult. Especially when you like to eat some food which normally only is available in your home country. And I like to cook from time to time my own Dutch food. Some specific Dutch dishes cannot be made in the Philippines because the right ingredients are...
If you like to become an expat in the Philippines or you like to move here for other reasons you will have many questions, for sure. Searching the internet to get those answers is one possibility, ask around on forums is an other way to get your answers. For this reason this website has...
When I first started this website I decided that the main language would be English for a number of reasons. English is world-wide spoken and understood by many people English is the second official language in the Philippines English can easily be translated into other languages (automatically by Google or any web browser) Expat...
Many websites like to have a high page rank in Google. Only few are getting a high page rank. Top websites like Microsoft, Google, facebook and the like most of the time have a page rank of 10 out of 10. For smaller websites like blogs and similar websites a page rank of 3...
More Britons than ever before are considering starting a new life abroad. But what are the key considerations people should make before taking their first steps to becoming an expat? There are many and leaving your home country to set yourself up in a foreign land is truly a huge life change. Britain is...
The new forum “ASK EXPAT in the PHILIPPINES” is available for everybody now. Just click on the ASK Forum button in the menu bar, click on the logo at the right, or follow the link: ASK EXPAT in the PHILIPPINES forum Becoming a member is easy and after that you will be able to...
Very soon I will start a new FORUM as part of this website. In the comments on many posts, and also through private e-mail I receive many questions about life in the Philippines as an expat. Questions about health and insurances, questions about visa, about taxes, about legal papers, and many more ‘expat’ related...
Continuation from Hi, I’m Emily part 2 Here in the Philippines I have met a few other species of my kind. They are not that smart like me, but they are nice. Although sometimes they are annoying and asking for food whole day. I cannot understand why they do not have their own servants....
Continuation from Hi, I’m Emily part 1 On a certain moment, I cannot remember the date because I do not have any idea about time, not even today, I was asked to go into a small cage. I didn’t like it but I did anyway, because there was no more furniture, no more napping...
Tory and Jason, two young Americans living in the Philippines decided to do something different. They were young missionaries for some years and now ordinary members of their church. Plenty of time left do something different. They decided to do a ‘job in the PI’ experiment. For that they have decided to work as...
I was a little surprised when I found out that on Go Overseas, Philippines blogs this website was marked as the Number 1 blog in the Philippines. When I was checking where my visitors are coming from (I think every blogger should check that from time to time) one of the referrers was gooverseas.com/philippines-blogs....
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