Category: Expat Life

In this section I publish posts about what it’s like being an expatriate and the cultures and traditions of the countries I’ve lived in: Italy, Switzerland, Germany and The Netherlands.
I also add some observations about places I’ve often travelled to, like for example France and the UK.

Multicultural life and parenting style

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on September 24, 2012 • ( 13 Comments )

Parenting abroad means getting in touch with other styles of parenting. What do you adopt from other cultures?

Expat definition maze

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on August 29, 2012 • ( 23 Comments )

I was reading several blogs about expats, Third Culture Kids, Adult Third Culture Kids, Global Nomads and was wondering about the definitions of all these terms. An expat is “a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person’s upbringing”. The […]

Which language to choose?

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on August 19, 2012 • ( 32 Comments )

When my son was born, my husband and I were living in Italy and expected to stay for a long time. Italian is one of my two mother tongues and it was very natural for me to talk Italian to my son from the beginning. Our home languages […]

My home are my languages

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on August 16, 2012 • ( 20 Comments )

For my first post I took some inspiration from other blogs I’ve followed. A particular one caught my interest, which felt like having written it myself. – It was a post from Annabelle wondering what her daughter would consider to be her home and language when asked “Where are […]