Removalists off to load up our container in Heilbronn I'm normally good on anniversaries but it was my husband who realised that today is exactly five years since we landed in Australia. I was returning after living overseas for about five and half years, and he was bravely arriving for the …
living abroad
Leaving friends in foreign places – stay in touch!
A recent post at the (beautifully-named) Farsickness blog talked about the problem of friendships when you live abroad. Not so much the friends you leave behind when you move abroad, but the friends you leave behind if you move on from your "new" home, and the friends (often fellow ex-pats) who also …
When living and leaving abroad makes you sad
Most of you will know that I've lived for short stints in Japan, Slovakia and Germany before returning to my home country, Australia. Japan was my first overseas home and leaving there was one of the saddest things I've done; leaving Slovakia and Germany was just marginally easier because I'd …