About

Spring 2016

I’ve been traveling since I was 2 months old.  Okay…so that’s not entirely true.  I was born in Jamaica and my parents moved to Canada when I was a baby.  I grew up in Toronto and assumed that was where I’d stay.  Then during university I had a lot of friends who were taking semesters abroad and I wanted to do that too.  As a broke student it wasn’t meant to be at that time.  But I started to become interested in the possibility of picking up and moving somewhere new.

A few years after graduating from university a good friend moved to Japan.  I went to visit him and that was when I started to get a glimpse of expat life.  A few months later I went to Cuba then a few weeks after that to Senegal.  Something about travel allows me time to reflect and put things in perspective.  I decided on that trip that it was time for me to get up go and see more of the world.  When I returned from Senegal I applied to go to university in England and moved to London in 2008.

I planned to get my degree and move home at the end of two years.  Almost four six seven eight years later and I am still here!  I don’t know where I’ll end up, Canada, England or some third, fourth, or fifth location.

This blog started because Shawn (who I visited in Japan) convinced me to document my time away.  So I did and thought it would be a great way to update friends and family about my adventures.  That never really worked and I found myself connecting with other expats more than I was updating friends and family at home.  I mostly write about hidden gems in London, expat life and travel mixed in with whatever else I find interesting on both sides of the pond.

Melissa x