Expat Life

Since starting Wanderlust and Wet Wipes, people have shown an interest in the person behind the words and my life I am living. I started including posts in my plan all about expat life and some of the things we get up to. My most popular posts are in this category. I wrote one after an encounter with someone who thought I was a “Lady of Leisure“. The other I wrote sometime later after meeting many new expat women and having flashbacks to how it felt when I was the new girl.

900 days

900 days ago yesterday, my Things got on the bus for the last normal time. They bounded up the steps, grinned at me through the…

Boxes

The movers arrived yesterday.  Out came flat brown boxes and packing tape and bubble wrap. Black t-shirted men moved though the house like locusts (credit…

Expat friends

Expat friends.  When you live far away, your friends become your everything. They’re the ones who you got to know super quickly because expat life…

The happiest day in the world

I feel guilty for feeling so happy when other people are happier than me.  Said no one ever.  A couple of weeks ago, Mr Wanderlust…

Silver linings

This photo wasn’t this from this weekend.  It wasn’t even from last weekend!  But it was the last time we really got out and did…

A long week

It has been a long week. A hard week. An exhausting week. It’s hard to believe that just seven days ago we woke up thinking…

Guilt, self-pity, jealousy, and the moral high ground

Most days I just think about the day in front of me. Most days I try not to think about the future. I try not…