Expat life in Moldova

I found myself on my knees one day cleaning not only a bidet, but also a urinal (so elegantly called a pissoir by the French). This event took place in…

What’s fun about expat life is seeing things. The little, ordinary things that are not ordinary to you, or that for some reason catch your foreign eye. Here’s what caught my expat eye as humorous in Moldova.

Three men came to our apartment, packed up our stuff and they were gone in less than an hour and a half. When we see our possessions again, we’ll be…

Our expat house in Moldova stands empty, since we, the renters, are on vacation many miles away in the Netherlands, the place from which I hail. As my man and…

Expat life can be difficult, exotic, plain boring or all of the above. I’ve been telling you a number of stories of my various (mis)adventures in different countries, and it’s…