Miss Footloose

LATEST ARTICLES ( 237 )

• Expat Adventure: Dancing with the Gypsies

  

  Mother of Roma family Tell me, what do you think of Gypsies? Or should we even say Gypsies? Growing up in Holland I heard a rumor that there was Gypsy blood in... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

  

  Tweet Have you ever been surprised to find yourself somewhere on the planet in a place you never thought you’d be? See me taking this picture? I was thinking ho... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Adventure: When It Looks Too Good to Be True

  

  Inside the house of a Roma family in Transylvania Have you ever wanted to go on a culture-wine-food tour? In California? France? Italy? Please, have some... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Washing Your Hands with Barf and More Expat Fun

  

  My expat life is full of fun trivia that never makes it into my stories, so here’s a post quilted together with a few unrelated bits and pieces from various... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Fashion Fun in Ghana

  

  Tweet All dressed up for church Are you a fashionista? No? No problem, you’ll still enjoy watching the fashion scene in Ghana, West Africa, where I lived the... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Miss Footloose and the Scary Locals

  

  Tweet They are huge, dressed in black leather, and one of the two is shouting at me in Russian as they’re striding toward me in the quiet street. I don’t... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2011 EXPAT

• Expat Foodie: Fish Fun in Ghana

  

  Tweet When living the expat life in exotic places, one of my favorite things to do is have lunch or dinner with friends in interesting local eateries, the sort... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Discovery: Mediterranean Secret

  

  Tweet Did you ever think you might visit or go on vacation to, say, Albania?  No?  Well, neither did I.  But one of the good parts of living the expat life is... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: The Joy of Friends and Hash

  

  Tweet We’re sitting around several restaurant tables, some forty of us, and the conversation flows back and forth in German, Dutch, Indonesian, and various... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2011 EXPAT, LIFESTYLE, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Let’s Go Native

  

  Tweet As an expat or a traveler have you ever done something the hard way rather than the easy way? For moral reasons perhaps, because you are a high-minded... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Adventure: What Lurks in Dark Corners

  

  Tweet After my nightly shower in my lovely bathroom here in Moldova, I make an unpleasant discovery: A tiny dark alien thing has taken up residence at the top o... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: I’ve Had Enough

  

  Tweet I’m done. I’ve had it. I’m ready to call my prince at his office and tell him I’m leaving Moldova. I can’t take this anymore, I’m getting a plane ticket... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2011 DIARIES, EXPAT, FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: of Jail, Reptiles, and Other Fun

  Tweet Thanks to Julia from Turkey’s For Life I’ve been invited to take part in the 7 Links Project organized by Tripbase. In this post I offer up links to 7 of... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: The Joy of Foreign Markets

  

  Tweet As a foreigner living the expat life you have the fabulous opportunity to go shopping in new and exciting places. Yes, I can hear your groans coming from... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Why to Get Intimate with Foreigners

  

  Tweet Is this me? I wish. When you really want something, there is sometimes an unpleasant price to pay, not necessarily involving money. I really wanted... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Go Forth and Be Incompetent

  

  Tweet Urban window view in need of help Feeling incompetent is a humbling experience, don’t you agree? If you’re an expat or a traveler, or have been one, you... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• New Expat: Eat Some Placinta and Other FunThings to Do

  

  Tweet Kiosk in Chisinau Don’t you agree that the first few months of your life as an expat in a new country can be frustrating fascinating? There are so many... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Housing: Foreign Plumbing and Other Fun

  

  Tweet Do you live the itinerant expat life? Do you safari from country to country? Then you will understand how interesting it often is to move into a house or... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Housing: How to Bond With Your Bidet

  

  Tweet I found myself on my knees last week cleaning not only a bidet, but also a urinal (so elegantly called a pissoir by the French).  This was a new experienc... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Baby Steps in a New Country

  

  Tweet Do you ever wonder what it feels like to be a baby?  Would you like to find out?  All you have to do is move to a foreign country where the local... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2011 EXPAT, TRAVEL