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A Year in the Life of an International Teacher

July 15, 2017July 15, 2017 Bratislava, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Travelling, Working Overseas austria, bojnice, Bratislava, castle, cornwall, expat, heviz, hungary, iceland, international teaching, lake, looe, mountain, salzburg, Slovakia

I often get people asking me about life as an international teacher, so to honour 10 years of living overseas I have put this post together to show you what a year in my life

The One Where I Moved to Bratislava

August 23, 2016September 12, 2016 Bratislava, Europe, Expat Life, Featured, Travelling, Working Overseas Bratislava, expat, living overseas, Slovakia

Just like that, two years passed and I was standing with all my bags at Mumbai airport ready to leave India for another new life somewhere else. You can see my last day in India by

Kare Ayurveda Retreat: Eat, Stretch, Love

October 25, 2015March 28, 2016 Advice, Asia, Featured, Food and Drink, Health & Fitness, India, Life in India, Nature, Tradition, Working Overseas ayurveda, health, iyengar, KARE, lifestyle, mulshi lake, pune, retreat, yoga

Life in Mumbai can get pretty chaotic: it’s a big city, filled with—literally—millions of people. Like Raj says in ‘Big Bang Theory’: ‘it’s hot, and it's loud, and there are so many people! You have

8 Things that Might Surprise You About Living in Mumbai

October 11, 2014April 12, 2015 Asia, Beaches, Featured, Life in India, Travelling, Working Overseas beef ban, Bombay Expat, Living in India, Living in Mumbai, Mumbai Expat, Teacher Overseas

All these points are specific to how I feel about Mumbai, where I live and work. I am not an authority on what living in another Indian city is like. Of course, I am also well

Pigeon Purge

August 24, 2014August 24, 2014 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

Making Myself At Home In Mumbai

August 17, 2014August 17, 2014 Asia, Featured, Life in India, Working Overseas andheri, asia, expat, india

It has been a while since I last wrote anything on this blog - over a month in fact - and I can’t quite believe how quickly my first month in India has passed. When

So Long, Sweden! I’m Going To Miss You.

July 14, 2014July 19, 2014 Europe, Featured, History, Nature, Swedish Climate, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Travelling, Working Overseas expat, nature, snow, stockholm, sunset, sweden, travel, water

Four years ago I moved to Sweden; a country often associated with long, cold, snowy winters. But, little did I know that after the harsh winter Swedes are rewarded with beautiful summers where the sun

25 Signs You’re a Long-Term Expat

March 15, 2014August 8, 2016 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

Too Afraid To Seize The Day

January 25, 2014April 13, 2014 Asia, Teaching, Travelling, Working Overseas action, changes, expat, fear, job, life, life overseas, moving, relocating, searching, travel

This is a post that has been languishing in my drafts folder for four months. I have simply been too afraid to post it, because if I post it I have to commit to the

Discovering Lovely Looe, Cornwall

September 22, 2013December 21, 2013 Europe, Nature, Travelling, Working Overseas britain, cornwall, england, fishing, looe, smuggling, uk, village

In British English the word loo is a colloquial term for the toilet, so when my sister and her husband announced that they were moving to Looe—pronounced in the same way—they received a few sniggers

Reasons You Should Travel, And the Obstacles That Hold You Back

October 13, 2012November 10, 2012 Travelling, Working Overseas career, debt, excuses, family, fear, reasons, travel

If you look at some of my favourite books, you will notice a theme: journeys and adventures. As a child I loved Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books, later it was Lord of the Rings and

Why I Want to go Back to Japan

September 9, 2012April 10, 2016 Asia, Beaches, Food and Drink, Japan, Nature, Partying, Teaching, Tradition, Travelling, Working Overseas buddhism, festival, food, hiroshima, izu, japan, kyoto, landscape, okomiyaki, peninsula, shintoism, tokyo, travelling

I lived in Tokyo for a year between August 2002 and August 2003 and I can’t believe that it was ten years ago. I had barely used email before I left for Japan, and I

Category: Working Overseas

A Year in the Life of an International Teacher

The One Where I Moved to Bratislava

Kare Ayurveda Retreat: Eat, Stretch, Love

8 Things that Might Surprise You About Living in Mumbai

Pigeon Purge

Making Myself At Home In Mumbai

So Long, Sweden! I’m Going To Miss You.

25 Signs You’re a Long-Term Expat

Too Afraid To Seize The Day

Discovering Lovely Looe, Cornwall

Reasons You Should Travel, And the Obstacles That Hold You Back

Why I Want to go Back to Japan

What Happens When Plans Don’t Work Out?

What Makes Britain So Great?

Relocating to Tenerife: Finding a Job

Relocating to Tenerife: How to Rent an Apartment

Relocating to Tenerife

The Life of an International School Teacher

8 Things I Have Learnt in Sweden

I Had LASIK Surgery in Vietnam!