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Category: Friends and Family

Love in the Time of Coronavirus

Bratislava, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Friends and Family, Health & Fitness, Teaching, Working Overseas Bratislava, coronavirus, europe, international teaching, Slovakia, teaching

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

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Shifting My Paradigm

Featured, Friends and Family, Life, Relationships changes, life, Life Lessons

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

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Perspectives: Why Single Indian Women Should Travel to Thailand

Advice, Asia, Beaches, Featured, Friends and Family, India, Life in India, Travelling Female Travel, india, Indian female travel, thailand, 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

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The Best Mumbai Street Food and Where to Try It

Advice, Asia, Featured, Food and Drink, Friends and Family, India, Life in India bademiya, elco, gastronomy, india, Mumbai, pani puri, pav bhaji, sada dosa, street food

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

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Mumbai Festivals: Holi

Asia, Featured, Food and Drink, Friends and Family, Life in India, Partying celebrate holi in India, colour, festival, holi, india, Mumbai, travel

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

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25 Signs You’re a Long-Term Expat

Featured, Friends and Family, Humour, Working Overseas expat, living overseas, resident

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

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Dogsledding in Lapland with Arctic Husky Adventures

Europe, Friends and Family, Life in Sweden, Nature, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling adventure, arctic, arctic circle, dogsledding, husky, jokkmokk, lapland, sweden

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

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Friends With Benefits in Istanbul

Asia, Europe, Friends and Family, Travelling bosphorus, friends, istanbul, ortoköy, travel, turkey

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

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Travel or Family, Do You Always Have to Choose?

Childhood Memories, Friends and Family, Relationships, Tradition, Travelling, United Kingdom family, guilt, society, travel, travelling

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

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Midsummer Madness

Europe, Food and Drink, Friends and Family, Life in Sweden, Partying, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Tradition, Travelling flower garland, little frogs, maypole, midsommar, midsummer, sweden

“Why, this is very midsummer madness! “ (Twelfth Night) Not so long ago Sweden was celebrating Valborg to welcome in the spring but it seems that Valborg is only the warm-up act to the biggest

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Free to Travel – How I Broke Free From Debt

Asia, Friends and Family, Teaching, Vietnam, Working Overseas debt, finance, saving, travel, uk, vietnam, working overseas

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

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Driving Home for Christmas!

Childhood Memories, Friends and Family

Okay, so this is TOTALLY cheesy... It's my journey home from Stansted to South Wales on the snowiest weekend in Britain for over 100 years. It took hours but it was so worth it :)

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Visiting Friends

Friends and Family, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism skansen, snow, sweden, swedish winter

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

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A Social Life

Friends and Family, Life in Sweden partying

If you’re wondering why my blog has been abandoned recently it’s because I have rediscovered my social life over the past few weekends. One of the things that I have particularly enjoyed since being in

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The roof top terrace taken from the lounge.

Another New Home

Asia, Childhood Memories, Friends and Family, Travelling, Vietnam moving house, sweden, uk, vietnam

My Baltic adventure ended a week ago today as I stepped off the Tallink-Silja Festival and back onto Swedish shores. But new adventures are always awaiting and it was with a spring in my step

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Fancy Dress Friday

Childhood Memories, Friends and Family, School, Teaching fancy dress, partying, school, sweden, teaching

Yesterday was the last day of an incredibly long half-term and what better way to celebrate than with a fancy dress day at school? The first time I used the phrase 'fancy dress' with Nicklas

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One Hel’ of a Weekend – the staff social.

Friends and Family, Life in Sweden, Travelling, Working Overseas ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki, finland, helsinki, mui ne, partying, silja line, staff social weekends, teaching

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

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Welcome!

My name is Elaine. I am a British teacher who left the UK to work overseas many years ago. So far I have taught in Japan, Vietnam, Sweden, India, and now Slovakia.

I make the most of my holidays to do the thing I love most…travel!

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

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I’m in Bratislava, Slovakia, where I currently live and work.

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