WHERE IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU LIVE IF YOU COULD LIVE ANYWHERE?

Thinking about American and British expatriates, people who choose to live outside the country of their birth I wonder where YOU would live if it could be anywhere.  As we've seen as we learned about the alternative life-styles of the Happy Valley set, most of these people had independent means, inheritances, or successful businesses that allowed them some freedom to choose.

Please leave a comment!

Missy

AMALFI COAST TRAVEL: MISTRESS MANIFESTO TRAVEL BOOK REVIEW

A small but wonderful book that covers the towns perched over the sea including Ravello  with its ancient past of nobility, it's caves, famous artists and musicians who stayed there and enchanted gardens, Furore, where Greta Garbo and Anna Magnani had affairs, Positana with the Galli Islands offshore, Sorrento where the mermaids sang to tempt sailors, and Naples - not far from the volcanic Mount Vesuvius and it's magnificent churches.  (Be sure to cover your shoulders and knees out of respect while visiting churches.)



You may just want to indulge your mermaid fantasy here.

You may also enjoy Amanda Tabberer's "My Amalfi Coast." Amanda is an Australian who once fell in love and married an Amalfi Coast local.


Both books have some recommendations about best restaurants and in Amanda's case places to stay; she has a business offering rentals.  Both books had me ready to go!


Missy

SHOULD SHE LET HIM PAY A YEARS RENT IN ADVANCE SO THAT SHE CAN TRAVEL WITH HIM ? : OPINION BY MISSY

QUESTION FOR MISSY

Missy,

I lost a good job due to cut backs at my company months ago. I went on one interview where I wasn't hired but I did get asked out for drinks.  I accepted, thinking this man would have some career advice for me or some leads, or that maybe in the future when there was an appropriate opening at the company he works for he would remember me.  So I met him for drinks and we had a good time.  He's funny.  We started dating.  In the mean time I signed up at a couple temp agencies.  Not much is happening with that.

Jed is divorced and well off.  He is retiring early in a few months and he has offered to pay my rent ahead for a year so I won't loose my apartment and so I can go traveling with him.  He wants to go to Scotland and Italy and travel all around.  All I have to do is go! He says I can chose a third location to target!  He says anywhere.  I've always wanted to see the Great Wall of China!

I'm feeling like I should.  I'll probably work till the day I die and have never had a chance to travel in my life.  I put myself through college waitressing and I put in a lot of overtime at my old company.  My personal savings are not enough to pay my own rent for a year away and I do worry about being out of the marketplace that long but I'm thrilled with the idea. I feel like Jed and I get along well.

Any Opinion?

Alice
Virginia

ANSWER FROM MISSY

Dear Alice,

 If you've been grinding at education and work for years, you probably deserve a year off, though I can't predict if that will be held against you when you return and are back to supporting yourself. I wish I knew how long you've been dating Jed and why all you think the two of you get along well, but I'll believe you!  However, sometimes even the best of friends do not make for the best travel companions. Just like sometimes the best of friends don't make the best room mates. I've had both situations not work out well for me.  My best friend who I traveled with clearly didn't want to go alone but dominated the entire trip. I'll admit I let her, but then we were only gone a week. My best friend who I moved in with after college was nothing like the fun person I spent holidays with.
So how about you tell Jed you'd like to do some more local travel and shorter trips to see how you get along.  I like that he's willing to let you choose a location to go to. Run that Great Wall idea past him and see if he's into it. He should understand that you want to keep your relationship and not be together too much all at once.

Missy

TITANIC'S INTERIORS WHERE LAVISH

This book can be purchased from Dover Publications.

 Many of the images I use here at Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot

come from Dover Publications.  

This is one of several steam ship - ocean liner themed

books they publish for sale.

PARIS LYON MEDITERRANEE

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM MISSY!

IS MONTE CARLO THE PLACE TO FIND MISTRESSES?

I've been reading about MONTE CARLO - and MONACO where it is - and I'm convinced it might be one of the best places on earth for mistresses...

NOTE: 2020 : This is one of the early posts I made a decade ago before I got into the more magazine type format that features a subject or person each month.

Besides Monte Carlo being a part of the Ari Onassis story, and posts on Ari, his Mistress Maria Callas, and so on,  in January 2015 I did a month entitled THE GRIMALDI CURSE and the Mistresses of the Princes of Monaco.  You can find it in the archive of this blog.