Living abroad requires some cultural integration – language, dining hours, work schedules. But do expats integrate with the more superficial things about a culture? Things like fashion, breakfast food, and kissing hello? Katy and Tiffany explore the culture they’ve picked up, and what they never will.
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About
The Bittersweet Life is a podcast for travelers, travel lovers, expats, former expats and people who dream about moving far away some day.
Host Katy Sewall lived for a year in Rome, choosing (with great difficulty) to leave a successful Public Radio career to move abroad. She has continued her search for wonder and belonging since moving back to the States while continually struggling with repatriation. Host Tiffany Parks moved to Rome over a decade ago with a determination to stay and make it work no matter what. Through the years, she overcame loneliness, joblessness, and illegality becoming both an Italian citizen and a mother during the course of the show. Tiffany regularly shares her deep knowledge of Roman history and art too, transforming many episodes into a miniature trips to the eternal city.
Katy and Tiffany are regularly joined in candid conversation by world-class writers and thinkers. Recent guests include science writer Hope Jaren, Jess Walter author of Beautiful Ruins, Tin House’s Rob Spillman, historian Mary Beard, journalists Tom Vanderbilt, Emily Witt, Alan Burdick and Erik Vance, actress Jane Alexander, NPR book reviewer Nancy Pearl, and observation specialist Amy Herman, among so many others.