MORE FUN STORIES – LIFE IN THE EXPAT LANE

by Miss Footloose

`June 2024`

28: African Wedding: Wife Number One (5)

`May 2024`

28: Expat on the Beach: Topless on Bali (16)

`April 2024`

22: Expat Confusion: What Men Want (30)
06: Expat Fun: Naples and the Mystery of Sex (10)

`March 2024`

15: Of Expat Despair and Turkish Delight (12)
01: Expat Trouble: What Not to Do in the Jungle (22)

`February 2024`

20: Expat Trouble: Encounter With a Toilet Lady (22)
13: Expat Romance: The Real Deal (15)
10: Life Abroad: Little Kids, Big World (9)
02: Expat Life: Telephone Trials (21)

`January 2024`

30: Expat Writer: Are You Ready to Bleed? (25)

`December 2023`

02: Expat Foodie: Wild for Worms (15)

`October 2023`

18: Expat Housing: How to Bond With Your Bidet (36)
06: The Expat Makes a Visit Home: Little Dutch Treats (26)

`September 2023`

04: 7 Reasons Why I Love My French Village (8)

`August 2023`

02: The Joys of Expat Housing (13)

`July 2023`

14: Expat Adventures: Toilet Tales (7)
09: Expat Life: A Fool Abroad (0)

`May 2023`

02: Expat Adventure: Oh, the Things You Learn! (3)

`January 2023`

28: Expat Life: Getting Sheared (17)
05: Expat Life: The Unfriendly Dutch (112)

`December 2022`

26: Expat Foodie: How to Humiliate a Turkey (24)

`November 2022`

20: Expat Life: Black Hole Soup (25)
11: Life Abroad: Culinary Crisis in Rome (4)

`October 2022`

20: Expat Life: 7 American Things I Don’t Do (6)
06: Expat Life: The Joy of Airport Security (17)

`September 2022`

24: The Expat Philistine Does Culture (7)
02: Expat Child in Pain: Hunting Down the Doctor (7)

`July 2022`

15: Expat Life: Giving Birth in Africa (5)

`June 2022`

13: Expat Life: I’ve Had Enough (31)

`May 2022`

31: Expat Trouble: Barefoot and Phone-less (16)

`April 2022`

23: Expat Foodie: Stupid in the Kitchen (25)

`March 2022`

16: Living Abroad: How (Not) to Get Pregnant (8)
08: Expat Delight: Funky French Stuff (5)

`February 2022`

15: Expat Confession: Being Bad Abroad (14)

`January 2022`

30: Expat Foodie: Peas on Earth (22)

`September 2021`

14: Expat Life: The Joy of Foreign Markets (21)

`August 2021`

08: Expat Confusion: To Smile, or Not to Smile (19)

`July 2021`

23: Expat Life: Near Death Experience (29)

`February 2021`

21: Expat Exhausted: Where Am I? (26)

`December 2020`

20: Expat Life: Have You Ever Visited Bethlehem? (4)

`November 2020`

01: Foreign Confusion: Are We Speaking English? (12)

`October 2020`

18: Living Abroad: Awash in Culture (9)
03: Of Good Bread and Bad Guys (4)

`September 2020`

19: Living Abroad: The Fun of Small Stuff (13)
08: Expat Life: Culture Shock (17)

`July 2020`

05: Expat Travel: Just Stay Home (3)

`May 2020`

17: Expat Foodie: Having Something to Eat Ghana Style (17)
12: Expat Drama: Trapped in the Toilet (32)

`March 2020`

08: Life Abroad: The Fabulous, the Funky, and the Freaky (11)

`February 2020`

13: Expat Delight: Hot Italian Decadence (6)

`January 2020`

18: Expat Life: Overheard at the Airport (21)
04: Expat Life: Just an Ordinary Day (14)

`December 2019`

31: The Expat Foodie: Oil Balls and Other New Year’s Delights (9)

`November 2019`

09: Expat Trouble: Two Dutchmen and a Mali Sheep (20)

`October 2019`

27: Expat Life: Pearls of Wisdom, Some Fake (25)
19: Expat Adventure: Miss Footloose and the Serpent (21)
05: Living Abroad: Who Else Wants to Live in Paradise? (15)

`August 2019`

11: Expat Surprise: No Olive Oil in the Holy Land? (15)

`July 2019`

28: Expat Foodie: What to Do About an Uninvited Guest (16)
19: Living Abroad: Weird, Broken and Headless (10)
06: I Have Never Been Kissed So Much (9)

`June 2019`

30: Expat Life: You Meet All Kinds (15)
14: Expat Life: Underwear Bits and Pieces (38)

`May 2019`

26: Expat Life: Moments of Madness (20)
18: Expat Adventure: Playing Tourist in Your Home Town (19)

`April 2019`

30: Expat Foodie: Extreme Barbecue at the Dacha (20)
07: Life Abroad: Of Fake Mozzarella and True Love (6)

`March 2019`

17: Expat Life: Oh, the Stuff You Collect! (30)
04: Expat Delights: Fish Fillets and a Sealy Mattress (2)

`February 2019`

16: Living Abroad: Madame the Expat and the Gardener (14)

`January 2019`

30: Expat Life: War and Peas in Kenya (6)
07: Expat Drama: How (Not) to Buy Eggs in a Foreign Country (10)

`December 2018`

30: Life Abroad: Of Burning Dolls, Broken Dishes and a Mouthful of Grapes (40)
01: Expat Life: Exotic Pleasures and Other Fun (12)

`October 2018`

12: Expat Life: Off to Prison (Part Two) (15)

`September 2018`

28: Expat Life: Off to Prison (Part One) (13)
21: Foreign Food: What Kills You (37)

`August 2018`

31: Living Abroad: What Happened to Our Kids (3)
17: The Expat and the African Chief (5)

`July 2018`

06: Living Abroad: To Market, to Market (4)

`June 2018`

10: Expat Gets Scammed, or Not? (2)

`May 2018`

25: Life Abroad: What Lurks in Dark Corners (2)
16: Expat Fun: Foreign Countries, Warts and All (46)
05: Expat Life: Dancing with the Gypsies (15)

`April 2018`

22: Expat Foodie: Of Oysters and Angel Poop (5)
08: Expat Life: Can You Believe This? (10)

`March 2018`

31: You Never Know What You’ll Find When . . . (20)
11: Expat Shopping: Look What You Can Buy! (3)

`February 2018`

17: Expat Life: Oh, the Fun Places You’ll Eat! (3)
09: Expat Life: Bedroom Adventure (6)

`January 2018`

31: Expat Life: Seeing Things (18)
22: Expat Cooking: Extreme Baking (2)
21: Expat Life Quotations (0)
15: Expat Cravings: Of Pearls and Peas (0)
01: Life Abroad: Of Red Undies, Sugary Pigs, and Freezing Waters (19)

`December 2017`

22: Living Abroad: Expat in the Holy Land (17)
02: Expat Despair: Itching the World Around (3)

`November 2016`

08: Expat Humor: So Proud to be Dutch (0)

`September 2016`

02: Expat Bedtime Stories, Some Scary (3)

`August 2016`

01: Twelve Ways Expats Have More Fun (1)

`July 2016`

25: Expat Fun: Hilarious Services (0)

`May 2015`

04: Expat Foodie: Of Dog Spaying and Curry Cooking (2)

`April 2015`

14: Life Abroad: Buying the Car of Your Dreams (5)

`March 2015`

16: Expat Fun: Funky Foreign Femmes (7)
08: Seeing Home With Expat Eyes (8)

`February 2015`

14: Amsterdam Tale: Of Expat Love and Red Lights (3)

`January 2015`

31: The Expat Girls Do Lunch: Shocking Tales (2)

`November 2014`

28: Expat Adventure: Somewhere Surprising (10)
15: Expats, Be Warned! (9)

`October 2014`

19: Expat Life: Confessions of a Tacky Tourist (2)

`August 2014`

25: Living Abroad and Falling in Love (11)
24: Expat Life: Falling in Love, Why Not? (0)
09: Expat Life: Bali, Anyone? (7)

`July 2014`

20: Expat Life: 13 Ways to Drive Yourself Nuts (16)

`March 2014`

25: Expat Life: A Quilt of Foreign Bits and Pieces (5)
01: Expat Life: My Butcher’s Bedroom (Continued) (7)

`February 2014`

22: Expat Life: My Butcher’s Bedroom (7)
14: Expat Life: Romancing the World Around (3)

`January 2014`

25: Expat Foodie: Who Says Dutch Food is Bad? (6)
10: Living Abroad: But What About the Kids? (2)
01: Fun Abroad: Of Burning Dolls and a Mouthful of Grapes (2)

`December 2013`

13: Living Abroad: A Bit of Humor (10)

`October 2013`

24: Expat Life: Foreign Treasures for Your Home, Maybe (9)
15: Expat Life: Is it Curable? (17)

`September 2013`

28: Living Abroad: Don’t Freak Out (14)
21: Expat Life: My African Doctor (9)
14: Expat Life: Should I Clean Up My Act? (10)
07: Vacation Abroad: Of Wine, Bleach, and Nougat (10)

`August 2013`

03: Expat Life: Where Would You Go? (21)

`June 2013`

08: Living Abroad: Books About Living the Expat Life (20)

`May 2013`

18: Living Abroad: Reptiles You May Meet (0)
10: Living Abroad: Would You Have Ever Guessed This? (12)

`April 2013`

30: Living Abroad: Fun in France. Maybe. (14)
20: Living Abroad: A French Lady, Stilton Cheese and an Uzbek Body Builder (9)

`February 2013`

23: Living Abroad: Welcome Home! (18)
03: Expat Life: Toilet Tales (35)

`January 2013`

03: Expat Life: Are the Dutch Nuts? (12)

`December 2012`

22: Expat Holidays: Wherever You Are (7)

`November 2012`

27: Expat Life: Lost in Translation (15)
17: Expat Life: Of Wakes and Funerals (8)
03: Expat Life: Wife Number One (28)

`October 2012`

27: Expat Life: Happy Anywhere? (19)
13: Expat Life: Miss Footloose is Sorry (21)

`September 2012`

29: Expat Life: The Sucky Part (18)

`August 2012`

18: Expat Foodie: It’s Not Just White Stuff? (15)
11: Expat Life: What Happens in Your House When You’re on Vacation (15)
04: Expat Vacation: Is Ignorance Bliss? (29)

`June 2012`

30: Expat Life: Staying Mellow in Moldova (8)
23: Expat Foodie: The Joy of Rotten Milk (22)

`May 2012`

12: Life Abroad: Riot on a Turkish Bus (23)
05: Expat Life: Would You Want to Live Here? (21)

`April 2012`

20: The Expat and the Cow Lady (30)
07: 10 Ways Expats Have More Fun (24)

`March 2012`

31: Expat Foodie: One Chick, Three Sikhs, and a Chicken Curry (12)
24: Expat Fun: Window Shopping in Rome (18)
17: Expat Foodie: How to Enjoy a Culinary Crisis in Rome (16)
02: Expat Foodie: Hot Italian Decadence (6)

`February 2012`

28: Don’t Leave Me, Please! (5)
22: Expat Life: Miss Footloose Goes on a Hedonistic Jaunt (11)
04: Expat Adventure: Death by Crocodile, Almost (17)

`January 2012`

28: Expat Life: Topless on the Beach (30)
14: Expat Life: Hilarious Services (20)
07: Expat Foodie: Cow Feet Soup for Breakfast (27)

`December 2011`

27: Expat Foodie: What to Do With Goose Fat? (14)
26: Expat Life: Holiday Greetings from Afar (3)
10: Expat Life: Looking for Love in Palestine (18)
03: Expat Life: For Non-Americans Only (30)

`November 2011`

12: Expat Travel: Plane Talk, Touched with Poison (11)
05: Expat Foodie: A Day of Wine and Brandy (15)

`October 2011`

29: Expat Life: What’s a Nice Protestant Girl Doing in this Place? (18)
22: Expat Housing: The Problem Does Not Exist (17)
15: Expat Adventure: Dancing with the Gypsies (21)
08: Expat Life: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (14)
01: Expat Adventure: When it Looks Too Good to Be True (23)

`September 2011`

17: Washing Your Hands with Barf and More Expat Fun (22)
10: Expat Life: Fashion Fun in Ghana (25)
03: Expat Life: Miss Footloose and the Scary Locals (21)

`August 2011`

27: Expat Foodie: Fish Fun in Ghana (19)
20: Expat Discovery: Mediterranean Secret (11)
13: Expat Life: The Joy of Friends and Hash (26)
05: Expat Life: Let’s Go Native (28)

`July 2011`

29: Expat Adventure: What Lurks in Dark Corners (19)
16: EXPAT LIFE: OF JAIL, REPTILES, AND OTHER FUN (8)
02: Expat Life: Why to Get Intimate with Foreigners (21)

`June 2011`

18: Expat Life: Go Forth and Be Incompetent (18)
11: New Expat: Eat Some Placinta and Other FunThings to Do (18)
04: Expat Housing: Foreign Plumbing and Other Fun (24)

`May 2011`

21: Expat Life: Baby Steps in a New Country (19)
14: Expat Tribulations: Of Yogurt, IKEA, and Dandelion Fluff (29)
07: Expat in Moldova: Deceived by First Impressions? (30)

`April 2011`

30: Fun Abroad: 10 Fabulous Expat Blogger Stories (19)
02: Expat Housing: Mattress Madness (19)

`March 2011`

26: Expat Adventure: Moving to Moldova! (42)
12: Expat Confusion: Are We Speaking English? (33)
05: Expat Surprise: Skirt Power in Bolivia (11)

`February 2011`

19: Amsterdam: Of Expat Love and Red Lights (35)
12: Expat Travel: Plane Talk (29)
04: Expat Travel: Naples and the Mystery of Hormones (21)

`January 2011`

21: EXPAT FOODIE: OF FAKE MOZZARELLA AND TRUE LOVE (23)
07: The Joy of Expat Exercise (23)

`December 2010`

26: EXPAT ADVENTURES: FREE EXPAT E-BOOK TODAY (3)
24: HAPPY HOLIDAYS (8)
17: Expat Life: Throw Some Paint (23)

`November 2010`

20: Expat Foodie: Extreme Baking (45)
13: EXPAT TRAVEL: LUGGAGE LAUGHS (23)
06: Expat Drama: Trapped (Again) in the Bathroom (35)

`October 2010`

23: Expat Adventure: Ecuador, Almost Heaven (30)
15: Expat Adventure: Curing What Ails You (15)
02: Expat Foodie: Cooking Disasters (12)

`September 2010`

21: LIFE ABROAD: HOW TO FIND LOVE IN ARMENIA (15)
04: Living Abroad: Don’t go Nuts (24)

`August 2010`

27: Expat Foodie: Party in the Pantry (9)
14: EXPAT WEDDING: HOW (NOT) TO GET MARRIED IN KENYA (37)
06: TRAFFIC PROBLEMS IN THE EXPAT LANE (4)

`July 2010`

29: Expat Stories: Female Nomad and Friends (8)
16: Expat Life: Home Country Humor (12)
09: Expat Meets the Devil Flower (8)

`June 2010`

11: Foreign Flea Market Fun (2)

`May 2010`

22: Living Abroad: Oh, the Things You learn! (23)
01: Expat Trouble: Off to Jail (Part Two) (22)

`April 2010`

24: Expat Trouble: Off to Jail (Part One) (24)
10: Expat Shopping: A Crawl Through the Souk (18)
03: Expat Fun and Games (16)

`March 2010`

27: Expat Adventure: Bed Time Stories, Some Scary (15)
20: EXPAT DRAMA: HOW TO BUY EGGS IN ARMENIA (20)
13: My Outrageous Expat Life: Truths and Lies (14)
12: EXPAT LIFE: MAKING CONNECTIONS (6)
06: EXPAT ADVENTURE: LUNCH AT THE PALACE (13)

`February 2010`

27: Expat Beware: Signs to Heed (10)
13: EXPAT FOODIE: OF COMFORT AND PEAS (10)
06: Expat Foodie: War and Peas in Kenya (13)

`January 2010`

30: Expat Foodie: Breakfast in Paradise (13)
23: Expat Curiosity: Oh, the Things You Learn! (10)
16: THE EXPAT AT HOME: THE DEVIL AND ME (7)
09: Expat Life: Buying the Car of Your Dreams (11)

`December 2009`

25: Expat Travel: The Christmas Story (8)
19: Expat Life: Itching the World Around (10)
12: EXPAT LIFE: WORDS OF WISDOM, MAYBE (7)
05: EXPAT STORY: LITTLE KIDS, BIG WORLD (14)

`November 2009`

28: Expat Foodie and Thanksgiving Abundance (12)
21: Madame the Expat and the Repairman (12)
11: Expat Adventure: Sahara Saga (15)

`October 2009`

31: EXPAT LIFE: TO MARKET, TO MARKET (15)
16: Expat Foodie: Crab and the Meaning of Life (12)
03: Expat Adventure: Albania the Beautiful (20)

`September 2009`

26: Expat Life: Do Spirits and Witches Invade Expat Compounds? (14)
10: Expat Life: Doing Lunch in Armenia (18)
05: Expat Foodie: How to Get Pregnant (14)

`August 2009`

27: Expat Life: But What About the Children? (22)
20: Expat Confusion: The Problem Does Not Exist (20)
08: The Expat Goes to the Gym (18)
01: THE QUILTED LIFE: EXPAT BITS AND PIECES (8)

`July 2009`

25: OF EXPATS, FOOD AND REPTILES (9)
18: EXPAT FOODIE: COOKING CURRY IN KENYA (7)
11: The Expat Girls Go Shopping (23)
04: Living the Expat Life: Go Forth and be Incompetent (5)

`June 2009`

27: EXPAT LOSES SENSE OF HUMOR (8)
20: The Expat Life: How Exotic is it? (5)
13: Have Microwave, Will Marry (8)
06: Expat Confusion: What do You Mean, You Don’t Count the Baby? (10)

`May 2009`

09: SHEARING THE EXPAT (8)

`April 2009`

24: Living the Expat Life: Sometimes You Get Lost (5)
18: The Expat Makes a Trip Home (10)
10: Expat Lament: What Have we Gotten Ourselves into Now? (15)
04: The Expat Life and Curing What Ails You (10)

`March 2009`

28: Madame the Expat and the Serpent (5)
18: The Expat Foodie and her Quest for Worms (1)
14: The Expat Goes Souk Crawling (0)

`February 2009`

28: The Expat and her Daily Bread (2)
26: EXPAT FOODIE: WHAT’S IN YOUR PANTRY? (0)
24: Madame the Expat and the Gardener (0)

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