Expat Magazine

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• 145. Tourists

  

  Sorry things have been quiet on the UAE’s favourite website this last week; I have been clinically dead with the sniffles. And a cough. Read more

  The 04 April 2013 by   Martinfullard
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• The Cyprus Banking Disaster

  

  The Cypriot banking industryPhoto by Jonathan Boeke By now you may have heard of the infamous Cyprus "haircut", a tiny little euphemism which obscures the... Read more

  The 03 April 2013 by   Ovid
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• You Can Never Go Home, Reverse Culture Shock

  

  By Kelly Raftery As a newly minted Russian Area Studies degree holder, a chance meeting with another student led me to my first job in Russia--representing the... Read more

  The 28 March 2013 by   Noveladventurers
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• The Four Stages of Expat Life

  

  Le Dernier Bar avant la Fin du Monde Photo ruthlessly ganked from their site. Used under Fair Use Today I'm am very pleased to be heading to Le Dernier Bar avan... Read more

  The 27 March 2013 by   Ovid
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• The Great Race: The Quinns in Morocco, 2013 Edition

  

  Apologies to the feng shui of the blogosphere for these severely non-chronological past few entries. March 2013 has easily been the busiest month of my Peace... Read more

  The 26 March 2013 by   Quinninmorocco
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• Crime in Europe Versus the US

  

  Burglar ReliefWilliamsburg Savings Bank TowerPhoto by wetman When decided to be an expat, you naturally have to decide where to move. Read more

  The 25 March 2013 by   Ovid
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• Ceremony at the Arc De Triomphe

  

  There's no snow there now. This is from a week or two ago. A and I were walking to the Champs-Élysées on an errand... the ignoble reason was to buy some makeup... Read more

  The 22 March 2013 by   Sedulia
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• A Norman Weekend – Honfleur

  

  Honfleur is the epitome of what we Anglos think of when we picture Normandy: The quaint antiquated port town with the board-and-batten architecture and the... Read more

  The 21 March 2013 by   Becomingmadame
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• Don't Speak French? Speak Franglais...

  

  "Wow. Ils sont trop cool. J'adore le look!C'est le top!"Franglais: Noun, Masculine[frahng-gley]French spoken or written with a large mixture of English words,... Read more

  The 21 March 2013 by   Frenchgirlinseattle
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• That One Defining Moment

  

  If I hadn’t been in that place, on that day, at that time. Looking back on ten years of living abroad, I wonder what the turning point was that led to this life. Read more

  The 20 March 2013 by   Russellvjward
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