Leibster Award – or random facts about me
Like you’re actually interested….BUT Mani from A new life in India has very kindly nominated me for a Leibester award. Mani is a Mexican married to an American who now lives […]
Tag Archives: emigration
While wending our way home
We don’t really think of ourselves as ‘resort’ type holiday people. Having said that, we are well versed in the phrase, never say never. To be perfectly honest our […]
press the shift key
So we’re back in Ghana. Six weeks of chatting and eating and drinking, socialising and walking, and chatting and eating some more. The trips to the dentist and the […]
Top ten tips for living in a developing country.
Hi! Are you thinking about moving to a developing country? Have you already moved? I’ve written an article on The top 10 tips of moving to a developing country over at Expat […]
How long does the culture shock?
I seem to have lost my voice. I think it is due to the reality of our second year, our new living arrangements, and compounded by an absence of the […]
A true story — part three
{a true story are our irregular instalments chronicling some of the ‘challenges’ we’ve faced in day to day life here in Ghana, as we struggle to get our heads around […]
a trip to the beach
One of the main things I miss about living in Newcastle is the beach. I don’t just miss swimming in the ocean, Friday night fish and chips on the beach, […]
the other side of the tracks
Between Accra and Kumasi is a rail line. A rail line which has not been used, for trains at least, for a long, long time. It has fallen into disrepair […]
What do you miss?
Well we are coming up to 9 months away from home now. The acutely painfull homesickness has passed, as has the thrill of the new. Both replaced by a sense […]
what makes you happy?
So what does make you happy? And why do I have an apparently random picture of a pretty average road? There are the universal precepts of happiness: friends, family, meaningful […]
six degrees north 