Miss Footloose

LATEST ARTICLES ( 237 )

• Expat Adventure: Oh, the Things You Learn!

  

  When you’re living the good life abroad, let’s say in Ghana, West Africa, your expat friends there often have fascinating stories to tell. Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2016 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Twelve Ways Expats Have More Fun

  

  Only twelve ways we expats have more fun, you ask? I know, there are many more, but do you want to read a list of a hundred? No, I didn’t think so. Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2016 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Fun: Hilarious Services

  

  Do you love to complain about the miseries of your expat life? About how nothing works and they don’t import your favorite brand of peanut butter and the street... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2016 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• African Wedding: Wife Number One

  

  After our bizarre, ten-minute wedding ceremony in Kenya was over, I wasn’t sure if my Peace Corps volunteer hero and I were really married. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2016 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Delight: Funky French Stuff

  

  Dear reader, by now you must know I am a sucker for funky foreign stuff, and living in France, I have the fabulous opportunity to visit the twice-yearly... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Foodie: Of Dog Spaying and Curry Cooking

  

  You wonder about that title, don’t? Well, all will be revealed, so read on:I was introduced to the exotic, spicy flavors of Indian curries not in India, but in... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Life Abroad: Buying the Car of Your Dreams

  

  Most expats and travelers find Armenia a beautiful mountainous country abundant in lovely wildflowers and glorious fruit during spring and summer. Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2015 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? Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Fun: Funky Foreign Femmes

  

  If you’ve taken careful notes, you will know that Miss Footloose, in her expat travels around the world, has developed a mania for mannequins. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Seeing Home With Expat Eyes

  

  Are you a Westerner living the expat life in a developing country? Then you know what happens when you visit the place where your roots are. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Adventures: Toilet Tales

  

  For reasons only known to the gods of cyberspace, I came upon multiple posts one day dealing with expat nightmares and struggles concerning foreign toilets or... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Cooking: Extreme Baking

  

  Once upon a time in a far away tropical country, in the early beginnings of my expat life, I baked a simple cake–a light, lovely, lemony cake. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Amsterdam Tale: Of Expat Love and Red Lights

  

  Amsterdam, Red Light DistrictHave you heard the stories about Amsterdam, city of decadence and debauchery? The city sports a Hash Museum, an Erotic Museum,... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Life Abroad: Of Fake Mozzarella and True Love

  

  Mozzarella girlsDo you love mozzarella? I mean real mozzarella?If you’re not a lucky expat living in Italy, have you ever had the good fortune of visiting the... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• The Expat Girls Do Lunch: Shocking Tales

  

  While living abroad in various foreign climes, I do lunch with friends, just like I would do at home. Have something nice to eat, do some chatting and... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Delight: Hot Italian Decadence

  

  Lots of bare bottoms everywhere. Sometimes the back is more interesting than the frontThere is lots of wonderful decadence in Italy, from bare-bottom statues... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2015 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Adventure: Somewhere Surprising

  

  Have you ever been really surprised when you arrived in a new place?As expats and travelers we all have a list of places where we’d like to live for a while or... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2014 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expats, Be Warned!

  

  Have you ever seen, right in front of your car, a person crossing a road crawling on all fours? As an expat or a foreigner traveling in alien lands you get... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2014 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 07 November 2014 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Drama: How (Not) to Buy Eggs in a Foreign Country

  

  The problem with food is that, no matter in what obscure corner of the planet you find yourself, you’ve got to have it. And in order to have it, you have to fin... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 EXPAT, TRAVEL