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- December 25th, 2009
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EXPAT TRAVEL: THE CHRISTMAS STORY
Dear Expats, Travelers, Globetrotters and Other Friends,As many of you know, once a week I post a story about one of my expat-life (mis)adventures. This week I succumb to serious competition: The Ch…
- December 19th, 2009
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EXPAT LIFE: ITCHING THE WORLD AROUND
When you travel around the world and live in foreign countries, you hope you don’t get to deal with serious or annoying medical issues. But invariably you do. Or at least I did. I had malaria onc…
- December 12th, 2009
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EXPAT LIFE: WORDS OF WISDOM, MAYBE
Miss Footloose has a collection of quotations related to travel and life abroad and hopes you might find in the selection below a bit of comfort, wisdom or humor to sustain you in your daily struggles…
- December 6th, 2009
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EXPAT STORY: LITTLE KIDS, BIG WORLD
Once upon a time in my expat life, during a visit to the United States to stock up on underwear, books and vitamins, I found myself reading a children's book to a little boy, a five-year-old.This litt…
- November 28th, 2009
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EXPAT FOODIE AND THANKSGIVING ABUNDANCE
My stories here on this blog usually deal with one of my tiny (mis)adventures living the expat life in exotic climes, but this time I have no story as such, but will offer instead a brief exposition o…
- November 21st, 2009
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MADAME THE EXPAT AND THE REPAIRMAN
Every expat knows that settling in a new foreign country can be a fascinating frustrating experience. So I was not surprised that setting up our house in Ghana, West Africa had its problems. Some ti…
- November 14th, 2009
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EXPAT ADVENTURE: SAHARA SAGA
When you travel the world and live in alien places one thing becomes clear very soon: You cannot get away from Dutch people. Not that you’d want to necessarily; they can be loads of fun once in a…
- November 7th, 2009
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EXPAT ON THE BEACH: TOPLESS ON BALI
I'm sure you've heard expats or tourists talk about the Indonesian island of Bali. How magical it is, this island of rice paddies and beaches, of temples and festivals, of smiles and serenity.Bali has…
- October 31st, 2009
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EXPAT LIFE: TO MARKET, TO MARKET
Many expats and travelers enjoy wandering around in foreign markets to give them a feel for the culture of the country and discover treasures to buy. I trust you've taken careful notes and remember m…
- October 24th, 2009
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EXPAT FOODIE: WHAT TO DO ABOUT AN UNINVITED GUEST
“I want to go abroad,” I told my husband one tropical day after we’d been living in Ghana, West Africa for what seemed like ages and I was beginning to suffer a bit of ennui. Of course, being e…
- October 16th, 2009
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EXPAT FOODIE: CRAB AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
While happily living the expat life in the tropical, exotic country of Ghana in West Africa, my mate and I went on a short visit to non-exotic suburban Virginia in the USA and while there I suffered t…
- October 10th, 2009
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EXPAT LIFE: TELEPHONE TRIALS
Have you, as an expat or a traveler, ever struggled with using the telephone in foreign lands? I have. While my mate and I lived in Armenia, our phone number was very popular among Armenians unkno…
- October 3rd, 2009
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EXPAT ADVENTURE: ALBANIA THE BEAUTIFUL
As expats and travelers we all have a list of places where we’d like to live for a while or just go visit and explore. How about Albania? Is that on your list? It never was on mine. Mostly because I…
- September 26th, 2009
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EXPAT LIFE: DO SPIRITS AND WITCHES INVADE EXPAT COMPOUNDS?
One of the joys of my expat life in Ghana was having an African family living in our compound. Leah was our housekeeper. Her husband Jerome was a restaurant chef working in town and loved helping us…
- September 19th, 2009
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EXPAT LIFE: PEARLS OF WISDOM, SOME FAKE
Miss Footloose loves quotations about expats and travel. And since she needs a break from story telling she decided to share some of her gems with you.Once in a while it really hits people that they…
- September 10th, 2009
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EXPAT LIFE: DOING LUNCH IN ARMENIA
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 philosophizing, admire each other’s nail polis…
- September 5th, 2009
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EXPAT FOODIE: HOW TO GET PREGNANT
How adventurous are you when it comes to eating exotic food in foreign countries? I suppose it depends on what it is, and if you know what it is (some delicacies do not lend themselves well to t…
- August 27th, 2009
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EXPAT LIFE: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?
As foreigners in alien lands we often come across cultural customs, habits and behaviors that baffle us, charm us, annoy us, or creep us out altogether. Generally we like to adjust and participate, b…
- August 20th, 2009
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EXPAT CONFUSION: THE PROBLEM DOES NOT EXIST
Whether you’re an expat or not, don’t you just love and adore good repair people, technicians, mechanics, computer geeks and so on? As all expats and travelers know, they’re not always easy to…
- August 15th, 2009
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EXPAT ADVENTURE: PLAYING TOURIST IN YOUR HOME TOWN
Do you have a camera? One of these nice little digital numbers? As a traveler, a globetrotter, or an expat, you most likely take photos of the foreign places where you live or visit. It’s all so…
- August 10th, 2009
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THE EXPAT GOES TO THE GYM
Expat life can be boring at times. You live in an exotic country in Africa or maybe Asia where they've got scrumptious food, interesting customs and fabulous festivals, and what do you do? You wake…
- August 1st, 2009
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THE QUILTED LIFE: EXPAT BITS AND PIECES
Is your globetrotting life full of little incidents, insights, views, colors, smells and other bits and pieces that don’t stand alone as a big adventure or an amusing story, but are fun or interesti…
- July 25th, 2009
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OF EXPATS, FOOD AND REPTILES
Do you like adventures in the dark? Have you ever contemplated hanging out at night on an African beach? As an expat and traveler, I’m not usually enthusiastic about going on excursions en masse w…
- July 18th, 2009
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EXPAT FOODIE: COOKING CURRY IN KENYA
I was introduced to the exotic, spicy flavors of Indian curries not in India, but in Kenya, East Africa, where I began my long career as expat wife and kitchen goddess.Newly married, my Peace Corps v…
- July 11th, 2009
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THE EXPAT GIRLS GO SHOPPING
As a foreigner living the expat life you have the fabulous opportunity to go shopping in new and exciting places. Yes, I can hear your groans coming from various dark corners of the globe. I know yo…
- July 4th, 2009
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LIVING THE EXPAT LIFE: GO FORTH AND BE INCOMPETENT
Feeling incompetent at times is a humbling experience most expats are familiar with, I’m sure. At home you might feel incompetent when you don’t know how to program your space-age electronic equi…
- June 27th, 2009
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EXPAT LOSES SENSE OF HUMOR
You’re an expat living in a far-away country and you’re supposed to have a sense of humor about the trials and tribulations that are involved in living abroad. Sometimes that is easier said than…
- June 20th, 2009
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THE EXPAT LIFE: HOW EXOTIC IS IT?
If you are, or have been, an expat living in a foreign country, you know that friends and family at home often have exaggerated ideas about how exotic or dangerous or fascinating your life as an expat…
- June 13th, 2009
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HAVE MICROWAVE, WILL MARRY EXPAT
Many people enjoy living the expat life in the Middle East, but Ramallah, Palestine, is not generally known to be an expat haven. However, an American foreign aid project brought us there and we enjo…
- June 6th, 2009
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EXPAT CONFUSION: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU DON'T COUNT THE BABY?
Living abroad gives you wonderful opportunities to learn new things, like how to count, for instance. You probably thought you already knew that, didn't you? So did I.As an expat, are you ever confu…
- May 30th, 2009
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EXPAT CHILD IN PAIN: HUNTING DOWN THE DOCTOR
As an expat or a traveler, have you ever found yourself looking for medical treatment in an unusual, interesting or scary place? I expect you probably have a tale or two, possibly not all of the funn…
- May 26th, 2009
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THE EXPAT PHILISTINE DOES CULTURE
Many expatriates love to collect local art in the foreign countries they call home for a while -- carpets, paintings, sculptures, antiques, life-size buddhas and so on. The living rooms of a number o…
- May 16th, 2009
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THE JOYS OF EXPAT HOUSING
Do you live the itinerant expat life? Do you safari from country to country? Then you will understand how interesting it often is to move into a house or apartment in a new foreign country.While soj…
- May 9th, 2009
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SHEARING THE EXPAT
If you’re a globetrotting expat you know all about moving from one country to another and what it takes to get adjusted to life in a foreign environment. The second day of my new expat life in Armen…
- May 5th, 2009
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This group is all about a blogger needs for his/her blog promotion: Blog review, Search Engines, Digg, Technorati, Del.icio.us, traffic, feed, Bookmark etc. Here you can: 1. Introduce your blog and yourself . 2. Promote your blog post that you t… - May 1st, 2009
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EXPAT FOODIE: HAVING SOMETHING TO EAT GHANA STYLE
When living the expat life in exotic places, one of my favorite things to do is have lunch or dinner with friends in interesting local eateries, the sort of establishments you might not find in, say,…
- April 24th, 2009
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LIVING THE EXPAT LIFE: SOMETIMES YOU GET LOST
When we lived in Ramallah, the West Bank, where my spouse worked on a USA foreign aid project, I loved going into the Old City of Jerusalem on occasion and wander around, especially in the Muslim Quar…
- April 18th, 2009
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THE EXPAT MAKES A TRIP HOME
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. We all experience the obvious: We’re overwhelmed by th…
- April 10th, 2009
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EXPAT LAMENT: WHAT HAVE WE GOTTEN OURSELVES INTO NOW?
As an expat, have you ever wondered what you got yourself into after you arrived in a new country? No? Then you’re a better person than I am. Let me tell you about our move to Armenia. Armenia? Yes,…
- April 4th, 2009
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THE EXPAT LIFE AND CURING WHAT AILS YOU
Living the expat life offers many rewards, hospitalization not one of them. In most parts of the world, the locals have their own traditional ways of healing and the brave ones among us globetrotters…
- March 28th, 2009
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MADAME THE EXPAT AND THE SERPENT
My expat life in Ghana, West Africa, had wonderful people in it who went out of their way to make my daily life easy and comfortable so I could devote my time to writing Harlequin romances. I was, you…
- March 18th, 2009
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THE EXPAT FOODIE AND HER QUEST FOR WORMS
While living the expatriate life in Ghana, West Africa, I once accompanied my husband on a short business trip to Harare, Zimbabwe. (The bad times were brewing, but had not yet fully developed.) Havi…
- March 14th, 2009
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THE EXPAT GOES SOUK CRAWLING
Living the expat life, I’m always curious about my new, foreign environment, but I'm not much of a tourist. I'm not one to go sight seeing and looking at ruins or temples or museums. (Although when…
- March 7th, 2009
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EXPAT DELIGHTS: FISH FILLETS AND A SEALY MATTRESS
We’ve recently ended a 6-year expatriate sojourn in Armenia, land of many lovely things, mattresses not among them. Trout and sturgeon, however, are first class. Look at this picture of a sturgeon f…
- February 28th, 2009
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THE EXPAT AND HER DAILY BREAD
As adventurous expats, most of us learn to enjoy some of the food that is on offer in our new habitats. Not all the food, mind you. In Ghana, West Africa, I found it a challenge to eat snail stew. Sn…
- February 24th, 2009
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MADAME THE EXPAT AND THE GARDENER
Living the expat life in an exotic country, you often come across these small mysteries and quirky events that brighten your day. Okay, big mysteries as well, and they might not brighten your day, but…
