Miss Footloose

LATEST ARTICLES ( 237 )

• 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 16 March 2013 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Living Abroad: Madame the Expat and the Gardener

  

  No, this is not a sordid tale of galloping lust and sexual debauchery (rumored to be rampant in expat communities), so if that’s what you’re hoping for, go away. Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2013 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: The Joy of Airport Security

  

  I know you’ll find this hard to believe, but I’m a very innocuous looking person. There’s nothing suspicious, strange or fabulously exotic about my physical... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Living Abroad: Welcome Home!

  

  What does it mean to come home? What do you find when you’ve been away? What is home, anyway? Several months ago we left Moldova in Eastern Europe where we had... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Romance: The Real Deal

  

  I met my American prince long ago. He’d traveled across the ocean to my native Holland and we romanced in Amsterdam. Later he proposed on a moonlit piazza in... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Toilet Tales

  

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

  Posted on 03 February 2013 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Foodie: Peas on Earth

  

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

  Posted on 24 January 2013 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Oh, the Stuff You Collect!

  

  I have yearnings to be a minimalist. A minimalist expat. Then I wouldn’t have to deal with all those possessions that get bagged and boxed and shipped and store... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2013 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Are the Dutch Nuts?

  

  Happy New Year! On New Year’s Eve in my native Holland (properly called The Netherlands) people go out into the streets — no matter what the weather — and set... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Holidays: Wherever You Are

  

  Whichever holidays you celebrate and wherever you are this festive season, with family in your own country, or somewhere far away in a foreign country, I hope... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Lost in Translation

  

  Still feeling gloomy after reading my latest post? Oh, get over it! Read this and see if it will give you a few chuckles and cheer you up.Expats often have the... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Of Wakes and Funerals

  

  Are you surprised that not all in the expat life is full of fun and frivolity? Surely not. Not even all that is exotic is full of joy and thrills. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2012 EXPAT, OUTDOORS, SNOW, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Wife Number One

  

  Marry a foreigner? Leave my cozy Holland? Go to Africa? I was young and innocent when fate offered me these thrillingly risky opportunities. Since I was yearnin... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Expat Life: Happy Anywhere?

  

  If you’re living the serial expat life you’d better learn to be happy anywhere, which is easier said than done in some cases. Being in transition from one... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: Miss Footloose is Sorry

  

  No doubt all of you expats have been waiting with baited breath for Miss Footloose’s next post about her new adventures. She can feel your eagerness radiating... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: The Sucky Part

  

  Three men came to our apartment, packed up our stuff and they were gone in less than an hour and a half. When we see our possessions again, we’ll be a... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2012 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. I live i... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Trouble: Barefoot and Phone-less

  

  Just one micro-second of inattention and you’re in trouble. One moment of not thinking and you manage to get yourself in a problem situation. Okay, that’s sayin... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Foodie: Extreme Barbecue at the Dacha

  

  A car drives up. Someone opens the trunk. I see what’s inside. Oh, no . . .Do you like picnics? Barbecues? Sure you do. If you live in the world of gourmet... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Expat Life: The Unfriendly Dutch

  

  I’m upset, dear reader. In the last few months I’ve come across several posts and articles about how unfriendly, rude and blunt the Dutch are. Blunt, I get. We... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL