AFTER a washout of an Easter weekend, it’s perhaps not too difficult to understand why Guernsey woman Claire Keeling swapped the northern hemisphere for the southern and has made her home in Sydney, Australia.
Expats news
Visitors will return down under as Green Lions fans
GUERNSEY FC added more fans to their ranks recently – this time all the way from Australia.
‘A new sort of normal’
AFTERSHOCKS are still occurring in New Zealand but life is slowly returning to normal, according to a Guernsey family now living there.
Guernsey Kiwis shaken but fine after NZ quake
A GUERNSEY couple living near Christchurch have spoken of their relief at surviving the New Zealand earthquake safe and well.
Snow business
Many would think twice about starting a new business in a foreign country at the height of a recession. But there was no stopping one Guernseyman and his wife, who left successful marketing careers in London to run a catered ski chalet business. Now they’re living – and loving – the high life, as Nicci [...]
Weather and housing situation led to emigration
IT WAS the allure of better weather and Guernsey’s poor housing situation that led John and Maureen Kitchen to leave the island in the 1960s.
‘A tsunami of fire’: Australia reels from Black Saturday
GUERNSEY expats in Australia have been talking of the horror of Black Saturday.
Life support
He travels alone, flying a small plane, in the middle of Africa, landing in remote spots in some troubled countries. But never mind civil war gunfire – it’s the Ebola outbreaks that concern him more. Professional pilot Bryan Pill tells Chris Morvan about his unusual working life.
Affordable Tuscany
A slice of Tuscan real estate for under £50,000? It’s possible – and a local man has helped make it so. Di Digard discovers a little piece of affordable heaven.
Hurricane Gustav traps local man in his hotel
A LOCAL man was caught in the path of Hurricane Gustav, it emerged yesterday.
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