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• Life Abroad: What Lurks in Dark Corners

  

  Something creepy happened to me while I was innocently living the expat life in Moldova a few years ago. Yes, Moldova is a country. The capital is... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Fun: Foreign Countries, Warts and All

  

  Looking at the worldDo you love your own country, warts and all? Do you actually know your own country’s warts?  As a traveler or an expat you discover the... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Foodie: Of Oysters and Angel Poop

  

  Who loves oysters? Raw on the shell? Grilled with a yummy sauce?Living in the south of France near the Mediterranean coast, I’m surrounded by a culinary scene... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Can You Believe This?

  

  The Far East is full of mysteries. I’m sure you’ve heard. For expats and travelers this can be fun, fascinating, frustrating, or infuriating as I discovered... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Housing: How to Bond With Your Bidet

  

  I found myself on my knees one day cleaning not only a bidet, but also a urinal (so elegantly called a pissoir by the French). Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Shopping: Look What You Can Buy!

  

  Are you an expat shopaholic? Me, not so much. Unless I find myself in unfamiliar and exotic places, and then I love discovering the kind of funky things for sal... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Life Abroad: Culinary Crisis in Rome

  

  Just a lovely little street in RomeExpat life has its rewards, like finding yourself in Rome for a long weekend because you’re domiciling in a country not too... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

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

  

  Are you a restaurant junkie? Do you like unique eating experiences in funky places? Me too. Expats are lucky people because they often have many opportunities t... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Bedroom Adventure

  

  Don’t you love taking risks? It makes life so exciting and interesting! Okay, I’m not talking about the risks of the life-and-death variety, but the small ones... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Seeing Things

  

  What’s fun about expat life is seeing things. The little, ordinary things that are not ordinary to you, or that for some reason catch your foreign eye. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life Quotations

  

  Are you an expat or a globetrotter? Don’t you just love quotations about living abroad? Ernest Hemingway had a certain view, but perhaps not one all of us... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Cravings: Of Pearls and Peas

  

  My friend Olivia brought me two bags of green split peas from Dubai. Green pearls! It might seem odd that while visiting the most luxurious and decadent shoppin... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Despair: Itching the World Around

  

  An Armenian dermatologist once told me not to bathe for a week. I found this medical advice a bit problematic.When you travel around the world and live in... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Giving Birth in Africa

  

  I arrived in exotic Ghana puking my guts out. Not an auspicious beginning for a new expat life in West Africa. But don’t worry, this was some time ago. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Writer: Are You Ready to Bleed?

  

  The writing life is hell, I’m sure you agree. Today I am so uninspired, so uninspired, I . . . I can’t even finish this sentence. I don’t feel like writing. I... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Fun: Plane Talk

  

  Oh, the trials of holiday travel! Have you spent time in airports and airplanes this holiday season, crossing time lines and oceans? Many expats do. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Life Abroad: Of Burning Dolls and Other New Year’s Eve Madness

  

  Spain: Eating twelve grapes in twelve secondsAre you finished and done with 2016? Me too. Let me show you how the rest of the world celebrates the beginning of ... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Humor: So Proud to Be Dutch

  

  As a traveler or an expat sojourning in foreign climes you sometimes come across information, news, or happenings from your home country that just make you burs... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2016 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Bedtime Stories, Some Scary

  

  In what sort of weird or unusual places have you ever spent the night? I’ve slept in many dwellings around the world in my globetrotting expat life, even in a... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2016 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Life Abroad: What Lurks in Dark Corners

  

  Something creepy happened to me while I was innocently living the expat life in Moldova a few years ago. Yes, Moldova is a country. The capital is... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 EXPAT, TRAVEL