The narrow streets are flooded with tourist groups, washed ashore by the mighty river Rhône swollen with cruise boats. We are in Arles, the South of France. My prince and …
Miss Footloose
Miss Footloose
I hail from the Netherlands and grew up eating lots of Gouda cheese, riding a bike to school, and not wearing wooden shoes. Having adventurous Dutch genes, I married an American Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, East Africa, in an odd if humorous 10-minute ceremony that fortunately has stuck so far. My man is a development economist and I follow him around the world and watch him toil running projects that assist business and agricultural enterprises in developing countries. I have cooked, shopped, mothered, traveled and written stories in Africa, Asia, Europe, the US and the Middle East. I'm an expat writer not living in paradise (like Peter Mayle or Frances Mayes). I do not drink wine from my own grapes or tend my own olive groves. I have, however, visited my butcher's bedroom in Palestine, eaten fertility sausage in Kenya, and almost landed in prison in Uganda.
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Serial expats are not always charmed by yet another new country and another new culture. Much is written about the strains and stresses of the expat life, so I will …
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Sadly, dear Reader, this book is no longer available. But check out other fun expat tales right here: Life in the Expat Lane: Foreign Fun in Exotic Places …
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You decide to pull up stakes and move to France. Sell your house, buy another one. Ship all your stuff. You don’t know the country and you speak awful French. …