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Kay adds:
“Chatuchak Market is a great place for taking photos – so many different lights, colours and shapes that you could make a whole album out of them. And then on top of all that you’ve got the people, too. The light shining on this young stallholder’s face made it stand out in one of Chatuchak’s
The shiny new front-door key we held in our hands, opened the door to a property situated close to the golfer’s paradise of San Roque in southern Spain. My husband and I had bought a beautiful two-storey townhouse set high up on a hill, with a panoramic view of the three-hundred-year-old town. Little did we know that our place in the sun would turn into a nightmare.
The completion process was a straightforward affair, but we had no inkling that an
Here are the cases dealt with on Ruth’s page for June 2006.
Sarah is having real difficulties in making friends here. The expat community is small and she doesn’t seem to get on with girls her age.Some children have difficulties making friends anywhere. In any group of people, there will be a very, very few who are popular with everyone, and a very, very few who can’t make any friends at all, but most of us are somewhere
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Hello, and welcome to those who have joined up since our last newsletter.
In this issue This week: Scams Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke This weekIt’s a cynical world we live in, isn’t it? And travelling around the world certainly makes you aware of it.
One of the favourite scams in New Delhi’s Connaught Place is the shoe trick. The unsuspecting “mark” (target for the scam) is walking along, probably unfamiliar with the surroundings and bewildered at a very different environment from
British Expat Newsletter:
28 June 2006
Hello, and welcome to those who have joined up since our last newsletter.
In this issue This week: Supermarkets Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke This weekWhere do you do your shopping? The answer to that question seems to depend heavily on how economically advanced the country is that you’re living in.
In South Asia, for instance, the answer is very often that YOU don’t – your cook goes to the market and does it for you (although it may be worth braving the stares of
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