Life Abroad

Do you like to smile? Well, be serious for a moment! I’m sure you know that if you’re a globetrotter or an expat you invariably come across baffling habits or…

Do you like breakfast? As an expat or a traveler you get the opportunity to eat breakfast in lots of fun places. Planes, hotels, restaurants, huts, palaces, even in a…

In my sojourns as an expat in foreign countries I’ve learned facts and information about subjects I’d never thought I’d know a thing about. Like, say, leather tanning, or shea nut processing or mopane worms consumption, to name but a few. I know, you’re fascinated already.

As an expat, buying a car in a foreign country can be an adventure. In Armenia the car of your dreams might be a Russian car. Most expats and travelers…

As many of my readers around the world probably know, I grew up in the Netherlands. Happy as I was there, I had a travel bug and luckily ended up…