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...knowledge. In the case of Limassol, Cyprus, for example, the father-and-son team of Tommys and George offers not just hotel tips but restaurant suggestions and car-hire advice. Discovering hitherto obscure accommodation can also be a real joy. In Luang Prabang, Laos, the booking service run by expat and tourism consultant Lee Sheridan lists, among others, the charming Le Tam Tam Garden Guesthouse, owned by the avuncular Nouanta Sayyabouasi and offering rooms from $15 a night. (Not all of the properties are undiscovered - some big, high-end hotels are on the site, giving users a genuine choice...
...term of endearment. In his new book, Gringos in Paradise, Golson, 61, tells the lively story of how he and his wife Thia, 60, built their retirement dream house in Sayulita, a seaside village of 1,500 on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. TIME spoke with Golson about expat life south of the border...
...Dramatic murders are a staple of Hong Kong's courts and media. Last year, the city was mesmerized by the trial of Nancy Kissel, an American expat convicted of drugging her banker husband with a poisoned milkshake and bludgeoning him to death. But despite its gangster lore and its flair for B-movie-style killings, the city of 7 million has one of the world's lowest homicide rates. Murders plummeted from 102 in 1997 to just 34 last year, in part perhaps because the city's gangs have shifted some of their focus to southern China. "Occasionally you have...
...star of the show is John Singer Sargent's notorious Madame X (1884), herself an American transplant who moved to Paris as a child, and who, like her expat painter, would always be an outsider in her adopted city. metmuseum.org
...mother makes a showing in drab black dress, a prim contrast to Thomas Hovenden's slumped self-portrait (1875). But the star of the show is John Singer Sargent's notorious Madame X (1884), herself an American transplant who moved to Paris as a child, and who, like her expat painter, would always be an outsider in her adopted city.