Expat Friends: This time last year you didn’t know me
This time last year I was sat, much as I am now, at my mums house in Derby. Waiting for the call that said we…
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To everyone who has checked in with us: we are okay
On Monday morning, around the breakfast table, my husband silently passed his phone over to me. There was an article open, one which announced the…
View PostMy love-hate relationship with the great summer exodus
The time is nearly upon us, where I abandon my husband for the summer and head for the cooler climes of the UK. The time…
View PostWhy I’m abandoning my husband this summer
In a little over three weeks we will all be boarding a plane back to the UK for the summer. Four days later my husband…
View PostThe Expat Wife: Dependant or dependent?
Moving out to the Middle East four years ago I feared the worst. I went in with the mindset that if I hated it, and…
View PostExpat Life: Will I ever come home? Do I even want to?
Last week my mum came over to visit and talk turned, as it always does, to the potential of us returning home. I’ve always been…
View PostExpat friendships are what make expat life amazing
It was never in my plans to be an expat. You could go as far as to say it was the furtherst thing from my…
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