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Settling in without settling in……

I’m going back to Australia in a couple of weeks, just for a quick family visit. I’m starting to organise appointments and dinners and lunches with friends and old work colleagues. I’m dreaming about eating at my favourite Asian restaurants again. I’ve been thinking about my beautiful apartment I had before I left, and how [...]

The benefits of being a foreigner – dodging the Charity Grinners (and other thoughts on charity and poverty)

I hate to say this, but I hate those people who jump in your face on the street and try to sign you up to donate to their charity.

Its not just a French phenomenen, but Paris, being the most visited city in the world, and one with a really high unemployment rate (ie I’ll do [...]