Would you like skip my rambling and just find out how to rent an apartment in BA? You don’t know what you’re missing, but OK. Click here. This is some quality rambling, though. Just sayin’. I signed the rental contract on my new Buenos Aires apartment yesterday, and then I went to look at it [...]

I was on Craigslist Buenos Aires today looking for a job and I came across this little gem: “Argentinean are just at the bottom of the bottom out of all the scumbags you can find in this world… THIRD WORLD COUNTRY like it or not… There are not jobs like in the US other than [...]

Today, I’m running the seventeenth interview in my Adjusting to Expat Life series.  If you’re interested in being interviewed about your current or past expat experiences, please get in touch via the Contact page. Marcel Krueger used to be a heavy metal singer, something I find delightfully in keeping with German stereotypes.  Then he moved [...]

Today, I’m running the sixteenth interview in my Adjusting to Expat Life series.  If you’re interested in being interviewed about your current or past expat experiences, please get in touch via the Contact page. My interview guest today is Philip Graham:  author, editor, professor, expat and traveller.  Here, he reflects on his family’s experiences living [...]

  Kristin over at Writerhead is posting a series of 10 writing prompts for expats.  The first tackles the feeling of being split; a foot each in two countries, two cultures – or more, maybe a hand laid down in a third, kinda like some wacky game of geo-Twister. It got me thinking.  Do I [...]

Today, I’m running the fifteenth interview in my Adjusting to Expat Life series.  If you’re interested in being interviewed about your current or past expat experiences, please get in touch via the Contact page. Todays interviewee is Jenney Thorson, who’s living as an expat in Palestine.  She has some very interesting insights on life amongst [...]

Welcome to #15 in my expat interviews – check out the full series, along with resources for expats, and if you’d like to contribute, please get in touch via the contact page! Today’s interview is among my favorites of this series – not only because it’s the first from a fellow expat in Peru, but [...]

Welcome back to interview number 14 of my Adjusting to Life as an Expat series – I’m rounding up resources and interviews on expat life around the world.  If you’d like to contribute, click on the “contact” page above – I’d love to hear from you. Today, meet Kirstin:  she may think her job sounds [...]

Due in part to my recent nervous breakdown and subsequent fleeing of Cusco, in part to its popularity, and in part to the fact that I just keep meeting really damn cool expats on the Internet, the interviews are back!  Now that I’m homeless again (unless one counts a pillow in the backseat of a [...]

Nothing takes the thrill out of a border crossing like a visa run to a small town you’ve already seen.  I did the Cusco to Copacabana run, again, a few days ago.  It’s not a whole lot of fun, at least not after you’ve already enjoyed la Isla del Sol, but it doesn’t have to [...]