As a Filipino living in Monaco, Francine Vito discovers the green side of this tiny nation often called the billionare’s playground. On a sunny Saturday afternoon in February, I was attending my…
In La Mancha, Filipino writer and expat Antonio Montalvan enjoys centuries-old traditions of rural Spain that most tourists don’t experience. I had taken abode in the tranquil pueblo of Camuñas and little…
When an Italian teacher told columnist Elisha Hidalgo that her child should only speak Italian, she re-evaluated the role of language in the lives of Filipino expat children, and made a plan…
In celebration of Buwan ng Wika, The Filipino Expat Magazine asked several Filipino expats around the world a simple question: What is your favourite word in your mother tongue? And why? As…