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Category: Friends and Family

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Love in the Time of Coronavirus

by Runaway Brit 13 Comments on Love in the Time of Coronavirus

With coronavirus currently decimating the travel industry, it’s a good time to write about my life as an international teacher instead. I don’t write frequently, because I can’t travel full-time like I’d hoped I would when I first started Runawaybrit. …

Shifting My Paradigm

by Runaway Brit 7 Comments on Shifting My Paradigm

When I’ve reached a grand old age and – like any self-respecting old lady – I am surrounded by an army of cats; I will look back over my life and remember the following things: living in multiple houses around …

Perspectives: Why Single Indian Women Should Travel to Thailand

by Runaway Brit 7 Comments on Perspectives: Why Single Indian Women Should Travel to Thailand

Having been living and travelling overseas for, gulp, about 13 years now, I have met many people from many different places, all with great tales to tell. I have often thought of inviting them to share their perspective on RunawayBrit, …

The Best Mumbai Street Food and Where to Try It

by Runaway Brit 2 Comments on The Best Mumbai Street Food and Where to Try It

If there is one thing you must do when you visit Mumbai it is to put all fears aside and try the street food; because, honestly? It’s simply the best street food that you will ever try. I promise you.…

Mumbai Festivals: Holi

by Runaway Brit 3 Comments on Mumbai Festivals: Holi

Having seen numerous documentaries and vivid photographs of people covered head-to-toe in brightly coloured powder I have wanted to experience Holi for many years. Out of all India’s many,many, festivals Holi is the most colourful and the most joyful. In …

25 Signs You’re a Long-Term Expat

by Runaway Brit 10 Comments on 25 Signs You’re a Long-Term Expat

I have been an expat for almost a decade. After a year in Tokyo waaaaaay back in 2002, I left the UK permanently on July 27th, 2007, when I moved to Vietnam. Since then I have also lived in Tenerife, …

Dogsledding in Lapland with Arctic Husky Adventures

by Runaway Brit 6 Comments on Dogsledding in Lapland with Arctic Husky Adventures

A memorable journey is often more about the people you meet than the things you see, and when I went dogsledding with Arctic Husky Adventures in Jokkmokk, Swedish Lapland, last week I met quite possibly the most welcoming people I …

Friends With Benefits in Istanbul

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The title of the post got your attention, huh?

Yes, I have a friend with benefits in Istanbul, but not the kind of benefits you might be thinking. You see, my friend Alex works in Istanbul, and as Istanbul is …

Travel or Family, Do You Always Have to Choose?

by Runaway Brit 11 Comments on Travel or Family, Do You Always Have to Choose?

Today is my birthday.

It is not a significant birthday, the last one of those was three years ago, and the next one is still way off in the future—although we all know that the next significant birthday is …

Swedish Midsommar

Midsommar: a night of Swedish madness

by Runaway Brit 9 Comments on Midsommar: a night of Swedish madness

“Why, this is very midsummer madness!“ (Twelfth Night)

Child helping to decorate the maypole

Not long ago Sweden welcomed the spring but Valborg is only the warm-up act. Midsummer, or Midsommar in Swedish, is the biggest party of year. …

Free to Travel – How I Broke Free From Debt

by Runaway Brit 21 Comments on Free to Travel – How I Broke Free From Debt

On the evening of March 15th 2007 I sat in a small bar in Northampton confessing to a friend of mine that I was struggling with debt. I didn’t know how I had reached that stage but all …

Visiting Friends

by Runaway Brit 2 Comments on Visiting Friends

This weekend Rhoda—my very good friend from college—came to visit me in Sweden. It is always great to see a familiar face from home when you are living in a foreign country; over the 4 ½ years that I have …

One Hel’ of a Weekend – the staff social.

by Runaway Brit 2 Comments on One Hel’ of a Weekend – the staff social.

In my opinion, one of the best things about teaching internationally is the sense of comraderie that develops amongst your work colleagues. This seems to be very different from the UK when everybody already has their own group of friends, …

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