Miss Footloose

LATEST ARTICLES ( 237 )

• Expat Adventure: Oh, the Things You Learn!

  Are you stressed out? Need some distraction from the troubles of the world? I humbly offer you this story and hope it gives you a laugh or two. Laughing is... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2020 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Life Abroad: The Fabulous, the Funky, and the Freaky

  

  Are you stressed and worried about the state of the world? Need a little distraction? Have a look at the fabulous, the funky, and the freaky stuff to be found... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2020 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Delight: Hot Italian Decadence

  There's a lot of wonderful decadence in Italy, from bare-bottom statues to scrumptious food. If you were hoping for a tale about hot Italian decadence of a... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2020 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Confusion: What Men Want

  

  You love cocktail parties, don't you? If you're an expat you probably adore the ones sponsored by embassies and big international companies where everybody has... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2020 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Overheard at the Airport

  

  What have you overheard at the airport lately? Eavesdropping on other people's conversations is not nice, I'm sure your mother told you so. But airports are ful... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2020 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Just an Ordinary Day

  

  If you've watched TV lately, I am sure you're in need of something a bit tamer right now so you can smooth out your frazzled nerves. Here then a story of a day... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2020 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• The Expat Foodie: Oil Balls and Other New Year’s Delights

  

  As many of my readers around the world probably know, I grew up in the Netherlands. Happy as I was there, I had a travel bug and luckily ended up hitched to a... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Foodie: Peas on Earth

  

  Are you living abroad, a foreigner living in an alien land? As an expat, surely, you have times when you hanker for familiar foods from your home country, thing... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: 7 American Things I Don’t Do

  Certain Americans will think it is my (and others') misfortune not to have been born American, but what can I say? It's not my fault I was spawned in the... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Fun: Naples and the Mystery of Sex

  

  How can you be crabby on a balmy Italian summer evening sitting on a moonlit terrace with a stunning view of the Bay of Naples? I asked myself that question... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Trouble: Two Dutchmen and a Mali Sheep

  When you travel the world and live in alien places as an expat one thing becomes clear very soon: You cannot get away from Dutch people. Not that you'd want to... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Pearls of Wisdom, Some Fake

  

  Miss Footloose loves humorous and interesting quotations about expat life and travel. And since she needs a break from story telling she decided to share some o... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Adventure: Miss Footloose and the Serpent

  

  My life in Ghana, West Africa, was an expat adventure in many ways. It had wonderful people in it who went out of their way to make my daily life easy and... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Living Abroad: Who Else Wants to Live in Paradise?

  

  Are you like me and want to live in paradise? How greedy we are. Not to speak of unrealistic. There is no paradise. I know this, but when my man and I started... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Trouble: Encounter With a Toilet Lady

  

  Furious screaming rent the air. It followed me out into the sunny morning: Expat trouble was upon me. As an expat of the Trailing Spouse Tribe, I sometimes get... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Foodie: Wild for Worms

  

  Have you ever eaten worms? While living the expat life in Ghana, West Africa, I once accompanied my husband on a short business trip to Harare, Zimbabwe.... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: I’ve Had Enough

  

  I'm done. I'm suffering from ELF (Expat Life Frustrations) and I've had it with my expat life. I'm ready to call my prince at his office and tell him I'm leavin... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Foodie: What to Do About an Uninvited Guest

  

  "I want to go abroad," I told my husband one steamy tropical day after we'd been living in Ghana, West Africa for what seemed like ages and I was beginning to... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Living Abroad: Weird, Broken and Headless

  

  No worries - it's not me who's weird, broken and headless. On second thought maybe weird does apply: Being an expat and living in foreign countries is often... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• I Have Never Been Kissed So Much

  

  How to live a simpler life? Slower? More Zen-like? In a place with good food and wine and lots of sunshine? A few years ago we came up with an answer: We moved... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL