Expat Kids – Missing Out on Traditions?
It’s almost Thanksgiving as I write and we have no plans. Whatsoever. Most American families will have the menus planned down to…
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Halloween, American Style
Despite having lived in the States for twenty years, you’d be surprised at how many bits of American culture I still haven’t…
Read more →Expat Living – Lessons in Humility
Whether you move around the world or just to one country, I guarantee you’ll make a fool of yourself at some point.…
Read more →The World at Your Fingertips
If you’d moved thousands of miles across the Pond in 1990 like I did, it wasn’t such a big deal. Television had…
Read more →Expat Parenting – A Surprise Element
As an expat, it’s all very funny when you have little children, born and raised where you weren’t. They often have a…
Read more →Framing Your References Abroad
When I first moved to the States from England in 1990, people used to ask me what I missed or what I…
Read more →It’s Life (Jim) But Not As We Know It
It’s strange moving from the UK to the US. It sort of looks the same, and in some of the older cities…
Read more →Expats – Unlearning All the Time
When you move from one country to another, you sometimes have to unlearn subjects that you were quite happy with, such as…
Read more →Learning the Lingo
How long do you have to live in a country to feel like you know what on earth everyone’s talking about? In…
Read more →Some Things to Consider Before Making the Big Move
According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics, approximately 172,000 Brits left their homeland in 2008, with only half leaving for work…
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