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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]