Holidays

There comes a moment in every expat’s life — usually in October, usually over coffee — when someone says “we should do Thanksgiving at ours this year,” and before you

Every American expat knows the moment: you are standing in a foreign supermarket, recipe in hand, staring at a shelf where the canned pumpkin should be — and it is

Sooner or later, every American abroad faces the moment: a colleague, a friend, or a partner’s parent asks, with genuine curiosity, “So… what is Thanksgiving?” And you open your mouth

If you are asking where to buy turkey in Australia for American Thanksgiving, here is the good news first: of all the countries where expats hunt for a November turkey,

If you are wondering where to buy turkey in the UK for American Thanksgiving, you have discovered the central paradox of the expat holiday: Britain is a country that takes

Of all the guides to how to celebrate Thanksgiving in Amsterdam, this one starts with a claim no other European city can make: the Pilgrims were here first. Before the

Learning how to celebrate Thanksgiving in Toronto means first understanding that Toronto has two of them. Canada’s Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday of October — a full six weeks

Working out how to celebrate Thanksgiving in Berlin starts with accepting a few local realities: the fourth Thursday of November is an ordinary workday, the weather will be cold and

Figuring out how to celebrate Thanksgiving in Singapore for the first time can feel strange. There is no crisp autumn air, no falling leaves, and no public holiday to mark

Of all the world’s expat Thanksgivings, Tokyo’s might be the most logistically interesting. Learning how to celebrate thanksgiving in tokyo means solving a series of delightful puzzles: where to find

Learning how to celebrate thanksgiving in sydney requires a small act of imagination: picture the holiday you know — the roast turkey, the gratitude circle, the pie — and then

Thanksgiving in Dubai sounds like a contradiction — until you realize it might be the best version of the holiday on earth. Learning how to celebrate thanksgiving in dubai means