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.

The mental overwhelm of moving country

I’m sat at my computer. I’m looking for songs to use for a slideshow of my favourite Doha photos. The movers arrive in less than…

Our new home!

Today we leave on a recce trip. For the uninitiated, that’s a reconnaissance mission. No, we’re not military but as expats is still kind of…

My girls

Feeling totes emosh writing this as I sit in the airport to go home. In fact, it wasn’t even supposed to be a blog post…

The 10 people who changed my life through travel… Mr Wanderlust

Would it surprise you to know that for our wedding, Mr Wanderlust and I named our wedding breakfast tables after significant places we had travelled…

When the end is in sight

You might not know this, but Mr Wanderlust was born in France. My first international move was when I was 3 months old. We were…

Exploring the new National Museum of Qatar

A project in the pipeline since 2011, the National Museum of Qatar opened it’s doors to the public on 28 March 2018. It’s building that…

The changing label of the expat wife

Expat wife. I could probably leave my post at that and I’d get a whole raft of comments. They’d range from something about drinking gin…