Grace Todino-Gonguet is a published technical and travel writer whose three children (Gabriel, Raphael and Lucie) asked her to now write something for them. Born in the Philippines, she has been an expatriate for nearly 30 years, having lived in Thailand, the USA, Gabon, the Netherlands, Malaysia and France. She now lives with her family in Oman and they retreat to a granite farmhouse in northern Portugal when it gets too hot in the summer.