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Living in another country helps you work out how to stick a candle to a wall

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2009/05/life_abroad_and_creativity.cfm?Fsrc=glvrnwl

Article from the Economist:

GOOD news for those whose working lives take them to foreign countries for long periods. Scientists have found a link between creativity and living abroad. This week’s Economist reports on a study (pdf) undertaken by academics at INSEAD and Kellogg School of Management, who tested 155 American business students and 55 foreign [...]

Travel as therapy

Quote from the book, ‘Travel Therapy-Where Do You Need to Go?’

“Going to a new place breaks you out of your rut and forces you to use new parts of your brain. It makes it easier to interrupt old, bad, ingrained patterns. If you’re in a stuck spot in your life, go alone to someplace you’ve never [...]

Things I dont like about France

There are so many minerals in the water that dishes, glasses, sinks are permanently covered in a white streak or crust. Nothing is ever truly “clean”. The kettle is permanently full of floating white papery chunks which is a pretty off-putting thing to pour into a cup of tea or coffee.

Dog shit on footpaths. Yep. [...]

“L’administration”……

Another “meeting” with French bureaucracy, affectionately known by the French as “l’administration”.

Monday was my real appointment at the main prefecture (police station, sort of…) for Paris. The appointment at the previous prefecture was just an interview to see if I was dodgey, a check of key documents (but not all documents….) and to have a [...]