In the last few years of living overseas, I’ve come to appreciate more and more the opportunity that the expat life can offer to simplify my lifestyle and align it closer with my values. There’s a couple of ways I think this can work. The expat life involves moving. And not just moving all your…
I’m writing about this subject early on in my 31 days to embrace expat life series, because it can be so hard to master. And yet it’s important, and it’s become a bugbear of mine when I’m in conversations with other expats. We live in a society of comparisons. We compare our own lot with…
I can still remember some of the many Zulu phrases I learnt the year I lived in South Africa. I even semi-mastered the clicks they use in some words. A few years later, I was in a country with technically the same language as my own, but there was still a lot of new words…
So you’ve moved half way around the world (or maybe just to the neighbouring country). The essentials are unpacked (and face it, those last five boxes will sit unopened for the next six months at least), you’ve got through most of the overwhelming amount of paperwork that any new adventure brings and you’re ready to…
Happy October everyone! I’m going to try something new this month. I’m being inspired by The Nester’s annual “31 day” tradition and am going to attempt to blog every day during October on just one topic. I’ve lived seven of the last ten years living outside my home country of the UK. I grew up…
My eyes hurt as I squint at the receding shoreline until it is a faint line and then nothing, just heaving grey sea around me, cold and inhospitable. My knuckles are white, half from cold, half from gripping so tightly to the edge of this boat that carries me away from the land I know…