Fun Abroad: 10 Fabulous Expat Blogger Stories

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Update 2019

Dear Reader, Miss Footloose is very sad! Times are achanging and many of the fabulous writers of the original list I had below have departed the Blogosphere and found adventures elsewhere. However, there are  still a few hilarious ones to read.

If you have fun expat stories, please send me a link and I will create a new list.

 

All expats are familiar with the dramas and upheavals of a move across continents and the subsequent efforts to set up house  in a foreign country where you don’t know the language and even the simple task of finding a carton of plain, unflavored yogurt can be struggle.  Although I have now managed to figure out what a container of unadulterated yogurt looks like in Moldova where my prince and I have recently parked ourselves, I will not yet entertain bore you with the other details of my life here.

Instead, I’ve gathered here for your enjoyment a colorful collection of hilarious or humorous stories posted by other expat bloggers.  I hereby thank these writers for entertaining me.  Hope they’ll entertain you too.

Photo © Ken Duffy | used by permission

Here they are in random order:

1) Here is Havana is the blog of American travel writer and expat Conner who lives in Cuba with her Cuban husband where they struggle to keep their marriage alive on a mattress from hell.  A CUBAN BED TIME STORY.  No, it’s not a fairy tale.

2) Canadian Carolyn used to live and work in the Kurdish area of Iraq.  Here’s one of her tales. Even scary stuff can be funny if you know how to write: GUNNING FOR IRAQ

3)  Mary Whitsell, a serial expat who blogs at Resident Alien, wrote a humorous story about a confusing exchange she had with a Turkish student: PATIENCE OF A SAINT.

4)  This American (Canadian?) Australian expat lives in Vietnam with her Vietnamese husband and is the blogger of  The Drop Out Diaries. She finds that the English language can be very confusing for her dear husband as you can read in her story TESTICLE FACE.

 

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Did you enjoy these stories?   And if you know of other humorous or hilarious tales, please send the links!