Expat trials and tribulations

The joys of expat housing can be many, but screechy concerts on the roof and crappy plumbing are not among them.

Oh, the things you learn about the toilets of the world! Expat life offers you wonderful opportunities to try out all sorts. I’ll try and keep it clean.

Here she was, a lapsed Lutheran female in a smelly animal market trying to buy a sheep from a long-robed male Muslim trader. Oh, the things you learn!

Culinary crisis in an elegant restaurant in Rome: Not even a free lobster the size of a small dog could appease this miserable couple.

Should we worry? We found the doctor in the labyrinthine alleys of a tiny Asian village. He wore a Micky Mouse T-shirt and was half-asleep.