29 Mar 2024
Extraordinary Expats
Extraordinary Expats

Extraordinary Expats: Miles Wernerman, Living with Progeria

How people from around the world gather around one little boy.

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Extraordinary Expats: Tammy Gaymon, Bikram Yoga Teacher and Swedish Champion

Keeping a level head in 40 degree heat, always smiling but always serious about her yoga – Tammy Gaymon.

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Extraordinary Expats: Josh Thorne, Film Producer, Football Chairman and Musician

Talking to Josh Thorne, one gets the sense of a tornado sweeping through life. However, instead of causing destruction everywhere, Josh causes production – literally, since one of his many hats is that of film producer. But he’s also a musician, fisherman and chairman of an English football team right here in Sweden.

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Extraordinary Expats: Yukiko Krigh, Architect and Interior Designer

She’s the genius behind Bisou Bisou, a Harvard graduate and mother of two. Now, with her husband Mathias, she’s brought some of her design magic to Stockholm with the new ‘3-experiences-in-1’ concept, Tjoget.

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Extraordinary Expats: Josh Lenn, Actor & Teacher

He performs on the stage and in Battlefield 3; he’s both a teacher and a father of 2; he’s an American actor in Stockholm. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Joshua Lenn, our extraordinary expat this month. Actually as a child in San Francisco, Josh didn’t want to be an actor, but another A-word: […]

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Extraordinary Expats: Kenny Stamatopoulos, AIK Goalkeeper

I’m married to a Spaniard, which means, amongst other things, that I know a lot about Spanish football and nothing of my native English football. Swedish football was just a dark mystery to me, so I was very happy to interview Kenny Stamatopoulos, goalkeeper for the Canadian national squad and Sweden’s own historic team: AIK. […]

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Extraordinary Expats: Andy Foster, Founder of Language Exchange Stockholm

I originally wanted to interview Andy Foster for ‘Extraordinary Expats’ for his fantastic work founding and then building up the Language Exchange Stockholm group, featured earlier on Your Living City. When I contacted Andy, his son Lucas had been born 12 days earlier and it was clear that the whole family deserved the epithet. For […]

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Extraordinary Expats: Gina Tse, Principal Ballerina

Gina Tse is Principal Dancer at the Kungliga Baletten (of the Kungliga Operan, the Royal Swedish Opera). She won the Marianne Orlando Scholarship for her performances in 2011 and was named ‘Dancer of the Season’ for 2012. All this is amazing in itself, but what makes Gina my extraordinary expat for this  month is that she has […]

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Extraordinary Expats: Little Foodies

Anyone who’s had a child knows how challenging it can be to provide a healthy diet at home. It’s difficult to strike that balance between nutrition and taste for adults, let alone fussy toddlers. Add in dwindling time resources, allergies and the stages of weaning and it’s enough for any parent to feel overwhelmed. Luckily, […]

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Success in Sweden: Melanie Jamison’s story

‘Every complication only made it more worthwhile’, Says Melanie Jamison about the opening of Imagination International preschool.

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