Reverse culture shock is real for expats, long-term travellers and students who have studied abroad. Even if you’ve never experienced culture shock – a sense of disorientation and feeling out of place in an unfamiliar culture – that doesn’t mean you won’t find yourself feeling like a stranger when you get back home. Here’s how … Read more
A new global parcel forwarding service promises to solve one of our biggest problems as travellers and expats, getting stuff delivered securely, affordably, and at our convenience. Will it? We’re about to put it to the test… Global Parcel Forwarding Service for Global Nomads After we packed up our apartment in Dubai in 2006 and … Read more
Many expats and long-term travellers talk about that sense of belonging nowhere – of never really becoming accepted as a local in their adopted country or the places to which they keep returning. And yet they return home to find they don’t fit in there anymore either. We’ve learnt over the years that we can … Read more
There’s nothing like a few drinks at a buzzy Bangkok bar after a busy week. But we’re freelance travel writers I hear you say! Yes, but we still work every day, we work hard, and we still have those particularly demanding weeks we want to forget about – the ones with too many deadlines and too many … Read more
I discovered the satirical blog The Gangs of San Miguel de Allende by Richard Lander* while doing research on the Mexican town. It was the first blog that had made me laugh out loud in a long time. It was hilarious but it especially resonated because we were already in San Miguel de Allende and we … Read more