<![CDATA[ORVIA\VIVRE: Continental Drift Newsletter]]>https://www.orviavivre.com/s/continental-drifthttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!30wq!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae8d531c-da27-4c36-9145-b1e03c2d9e97_750x750.pngORVIA\VIVRE: Continental Drift Newsletterhttps://www.orviavivre.com/s/continental-driftSubstackSat, 04 Apr 2026 00:11:27 GMT<![CDATA[Continental Drift: Venice? Later. France? Maintenant!]]>https://www.orviavivre.com/p/continental-drift-venice-later-francehttps://www.orviavivre.com/p/continental-drift-venice-later-franceThu, 26 Jun 2025 16:53:40 GMTEditor’s Letter

Unless your last name is Bezos, or you’re one of the 400 guests sipping champagne behind the blackout curtains installed for the wedding of the decade, this weekend is not the time to be in Venice.

Private jets have clogged the airspace. Protesters are lining the canals. And locals, already strained from high-season overtourism, have been …

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]]><![CDATA[Continental Drift: Vienna Waits for You]]>https://www.orviavivre.com/p/continental-drift-vienna-waits-forhttps://www.orviavivre.com/p/continental-drift-vienna-waits-forWed, 18 Jun 2025 21:50:06 GMTEditor’s Letter

Vienna has always had a knack for patience. It doesn’t rush to claim (or reclaim) titles or outshine its neighbors. So when The Economist placed Copenhagen at the top of this year’s Global Livability Index, the spot Vienna had occupied for the previous two years, the city responded in character: with composure and restraint. Publicly, any…

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]]><![CDATA[Continental Drift: Trieste]]>https://www.orviavivre.com/p/continental-drift-triestehttps://www.orviavivre.com/p/continental-drift-triesteWed, 11 Jun 2025 18:55:27 GMTEditor’s Letter

I first visited Trieste, Italy eight years ago, knowing nothing about it. What I did know is that my accumulated hotel points went a long way at a new property just outside the city that had opened the month prior to our European vacation that year.

It grabbed me because, aside from its unique location at the top of the “boot” of Italy (on…

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]]><![CDATA[Welcome to our Newsletter - Continental Drift]]>https://www.orviavivre.com/p/postcard-to-postcode-welcome-to-orviavivre-53fhttps://www.orviavivre.com/p/postcard-to-postcode-welcome-to-orviavivre-53fThu, 05 Jun 2025 07:26:02 GMTHello!

As an early subscriber to ORVIA\VIVRE, I want to personally welcome you to our new platform. We’ll get to why we call it a “platform” versus just another Golden Visa or Expat blog or news site in the coming months. For now, let’s just have some fun…and talk about the possibility of moving to, and living in, Europe as an American.

My own journey fro…

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]]><![CDATA[A Lifeline for Discovery: Why Europe is Luring American Researchers and Scientists]]>https://www.orviavivre.com/p/a-lifeline-for-discovery-why-europehttps://www.orviavivre.com/p/a-lifeline-for-discovery-why-europeWed, 04 Jun 2025 17:38:05 GMTFrom my home office in Salzburg, the Alps rise like a jagged stone curtain, just a few miles south of the city. I don’t see a horizon from this view. What’s on the other side…is often a mystery.

In the United States, where landscapes taper more predictably toward coastline, American scientists, researchers, and academics do their best to understand what’…

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