Cheating Death on Asian Highways
Traffic accidents are a key danger of expat life as we live in countries with hazardous roads and move around by car a lot. (Smug expats riding their bikes on […]
Category Archives: India
I thought it would be different (mis-anticipating destinations)
I once spoke to a woman who was moving to Layton, Utah from someplace in the east of America. She looked at the map, saw the giant lake (“The Great […]
Bureaucracy and the bored Indian clerk
Two phones, office visitors, open notebooks, the possibility of tea (see the back corner), and still so very, very bored. After watching this clerk stare into the middle-distance for quarter-hour […]
Empire-building Englishmen
Roald Dahl (describing his sea voyage to East Africa to work for Shell) describes the “Empire-building breed of Englishman”: “I had never before encountered that peculiar Empire-building breed of Englishman […]
