expat Archives - Runaway Brit

Why I Love Working in Europe (And Never Want to Leave)

October 14, 2019October 15, 2019 Advice, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Life, Teaching, Working Overseas europe, expat, international teaching, living overseas, teaching overseas

Recently, I've been reflecting on why I love living in Europe out of all the places I could go. And, yes: publishing this post as Britain perches precariously on the brink of Brexit is ironic.

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

Spring in Bratislava is a great time to visit!

April 3, 2017April 25, 2020 Bratislava, City Break, Europe, Expat Life, Featured, Health & Fitness, Travelling Bratislava, expat, expat life, Slovakia, spring

Readjusting to a European winter after two years of perpetual summer in India has been harder than I thought. I’m not sure why, because I like winter. For the last few months in Mumbai I’d

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

My Best Travel Moments of 2015 in Photographs

December 31, 2015March 28, 2016 Featured, Travelling 2015, ayurveda, expat, goa, hikkaduwa, holi, holidays, india, KARE, kerala, manali, Mumbai, nepal, palolem, sri lanka, tourism, travel, traveler, Traveller, unawatuna

It’s that time of year again; the time to reflect on the year gone by, and to look forward to the year ahead. It’s a cliché to do so, but I think it is important

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

Relocating to Tenerife: Finding a Job

March 27, 2012February 20, 2016 Beaches, Europe, Travelling, Working Overseas canary islands, employment, expat, islas canarias, living overseas, relocating, spain, tenerife

You might have already read about why I decided to relocate to Tenerife and how I managed to find an apartment within four days, but none of this is much good without a job. For

Relocating to Tenerife: How to Rent an Apartment

February 28, 2012April 13, 2012 Beaches, Europe, Working Overseas apartment, expat, moving, relocating, tenerife

Much of Tenerife’s accommodation market is aimed towards holiday-makers or Timeshare apartments and is very expensive if you intend to stay for longer than the standard two week vacation, but it is possible to take

The Journey to Sweden

July 20, 2010April 3, 2016 Asia, Life in Sweden cambodia, expat, moving abroad, moving to sweden, sihanoukville, sweden, swedish winter

My first encounter with Sweden, aside from the obvious dance to ABBA on a Saturday night or spending spree in H&M, came in April 2008 when my friend Kelly and I were visiting Cambodia for