Humour Archives - Runaway Brit

Julbocken: the Swedish Tradition that Usually Goes up in Flames

Europe, Featured, History, Humour, Life in Sweden, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Tourist Attraction, Tradition gävle, gävlebocken, goat, julbocken, sweden, yule, yulegoat

“Runway ready! How do I look?” tweets Gävlebocken, the official social media account of Sweden’s famous Christmas goat. Indeed, he's not only famous in Sweden: according to the Guinness Book of Records, Gävle's Julbocken is the world’s

The Hidden Dangers of Quarantine

Bratislava, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Humour, Life, Working Overseas Bratislava, coronavirus, humour

Stay indoors. Stay safe, they said. They're right, of course: if you stay indoors you won't catch Coronavirus, and – more importantly – you can't spread it. But what I didn't know is that being

Pigeon Purge

Asia, Featured, Humour, Life in India, Nature, Travelling, Working Overseas anecdote, humour, india, Mumbai, pigeons

Before I moved to Mumbai I read many blogs about living in India, and became an avid reader of Rachel, the Hippie-in-Heels. She writes a regular feature called ‘This Is India’ in which she shares

The Time I Didn’t Make It to Anjuna

Asia, Beaches, Featured, Humour, Travelling anjuna, fear, goa, hotel, india, stranded, travel

These were the days before the technology revolution: we had no laptops, not even a regular phone. We didn’t even have a watch between us. We were two foreign females, alone in the middle of

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