When we were first in Japan and met other expats I took to asking them what they had brought in their air shipment, at first as a conversation starter but I soon realised that the answers could be quite revealing. Whether an expat was an ICT (Inter-Company Transfer) with an air shipment (which is usually…
Moving to Thailand – Your 2nd Life Begins! by Mike Fook My rating: 3 of 5 stars Despite the cover, this book is not for sex-tourists, it will be useful for anyone who wants a quick run-down on how not to offend Thai’s or get into trouble, but also provides a positive, enthusiastic attitude toward…
It’s 5pm on Saturday, in Bangkok and we are in the hotel recovering from our morning at the amazing Chatuchak Talaat (Weekend Market,) before we are picked up to go for dinner on the River tonight. Superman has declared that now that the home-hunt is over, we are tourists and we should act like it,…
Can’t really think at the moment – too exhausted but I can say that after three days, 16 properties (in which we saw between 2 and 5 suites each,) and revisiting 4 properties, some of them twice and with multiple suites, we have finally decided on one. In the end we were vacillating between two…
So. We’re here. We arrived at around midnight local time, which meant 3a.m. back in Oz, which meant that I was paying so little attention as we checked in that, this afternoon, I attempted to get into the wrong room and had to go to reception to ask what our room number was (embarrassing anecdote…
It’s 11pm on the night before we leave for our home hunt and orientation trip to Bangkok and I wanted to document, for any other expat wives going through the same thing, that I’m suffering an apprehension which I did not feel when we went to Japan. I imagine it’s something like getting cold feet…
I’m afraid I have to report that I didn’t make it to the summit. Those who know the Kosciusko summit will laugh because it’s really more of a walk than a climb but with winds gusting to 45km at Charlotte’s pass, where we began, and the first snow of the season a few days before…
Seriously. As this post goes live to the interwebs, Superman, Caesar, Augusta and I should be leaving whatever accommodations we found on Saturday night and heading off to climb Mt. Kosciuszko, the highest mountain in Australia. As the Wikipedia entry reveals, the previous sentence sounds more impressive that it should be (anyone who knows me…
Superman and I took Caesar and Augusta up to the Blue Mountains on Sunday. Since we only had the one day, we headed straight for Echo Point to see the Three Sisters, the rock formation pictured left. Like many Australians, and tourists, I have always been under the impression that the formation is named “the…
Almost two years ago, to the day, I wrote a post titled “The Down Side”, about the friends that you make as an expat and the sadness of saying good bye, when their expat contract comes to an end. I wrote the, rather lengthy, post about a specific couple, “Caesar” and “Augusta” with whom Superman…
