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 [...]

The last month has witnessed a sudden surge of writing activity; I’m like a new woman, boys and girls (let’s see how long this lasts). (A week after starting this post, and finally preparing it for publication, the surge is already a distant memory.  And looking less surge-y and more – I don’t know, what’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Back with a bonus expat interview!  They’ve been quite popular, and this is an interesting insight from Jennifer, who is a San Franciscan girl living in Istanbul.  I enjoy reading these, so if you would like to contribute to the “afterlife” of the series, get in touch with me via the Contact page. Jennifer is [...]

Welcome to the twelfth interview in my Adjusting to Expat Life series.  While the series has dragged on a little longer than I intended due to a hectic schedule OUTSIDE of my blogging commitments, I always intended it to be twelve interviews.  I’ve found it fascinating to read everybody’s input, however, and I know a [...]

It’s been a little while but I’m back with the eleventh interview in my Adjusting to Expat Life series.  I’ll be running interviews, writing about my own experiences adjusting to expat life in Peru, and rounding up the best expat resources on the web. Anne-Sophie Redisch is a bilingual freelance writer and translator based in [...]

It’s been a little while but I’m back with the tenth interview in my Adjusting to Expat Life series.  I’ll be running two interviews a week over the course of six weeks, writing about my own experiences adjusting to expat life in Peru, and rounding up the best expat resources on the web. Today I’m [...]