Interview on expat.com

Last month I had an interview published on the website Expat.com (formerly known as expat-blog.com). 

Entitled Reunion Island: Love at first sight I discuss my love for Reunion's lifestyle, natural landscapes, and its ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity.

So if you want to know (amongst other things) what brought me to Reunion Island, a useful tip for soon-to-be expatriates on the island, and how easy it is for an expat to live here, read the interview here!

Plaine des Sables

At Grand-Etang 

In Saint-Pierre town centre

See also:

• Reunion Island Jobs & Housing
• From London ... to Seoul via Reunion Island (a May 2011 interview with Blogexpat.com when I was living in South Korea)

North Korea: to visit or not to visit?

From an ethical point of view should you visit North Korea? What do you reply to anyone who says the money you paid for the trip has been spent on the North's missile and nuclear weapons programmes, and that tourists are helping to prop up the regime with their cash and visits that legitimise the administration? 

This was the subject of an article published on Deutsche Welle's website in which I'm quoted. I'll leave you to read the article here.

You can read the account of my 2010 trip to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea here.

What do you think about visiting? Let me know in the comments below.

You might also like:

• Alternate universe : Pyongyang
• Ship shape ? (or submarine shape ?)

Internations interview

If you are, or have been, an expat you may know the website Internations, whose credo is to “Make life easier for expats” by helping them to feel at home abroad, meet people and find information about their new environment.

One of the website features is the Recommended Blog section and this blog has recently been featured there (in the 'France' section) along with an interview which you can read here.