French Links: The Accidental Expat’s Guide to Getting It Mostly Wrong

From compost toilets to Catalan love stories, French Links is the bilingual misadventure of a woman who came to Spain to sell a house and accidentally stayed. Clara writes with wit, warmth, and a weathered mop in hand, chronicling life in a village where the mayor keeps goats and the internet is throttled by a weather station.

In other words…not your typical expat blog!

About me

A passion for making sense of beautiful chaos

Clara’s blog is about surviving Spain with humour, wine and questionable Wi-Fi. From restoring a crumbling Catalan townhouse to navigating multilingual mishaps, French Links offers unfiltered tales of life, language, and renovation gone rogue.

Renovation Realism

Bat droppings, compost toilets, and unexpected charm: follow the true story of a house that refused to be sold.

Life in Translation

Laugh (and wince) through tales of bilingual blunders, Catalan confusion, and the joy of being permanently misunderstood.

Accidental Wisdom

Reflections on village life, beekeepers named Miquel, and why cheese might be more reliable than romance.

Featured posts

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Three Languages, Two Gin Tonics, One Arrest

What starts with a ham raffle ends with Clara shouting in “Catalanish” and being politely escorted home by the Guardia Civil.

A fiesta. A misunderstanding. A balloon-sized gin tonic.

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“Reading French Links is like drinking wine with your funniest friend after a long day—you laugh, you cry, you question your life choices, and somehow feel better about all of them.”