Almost American

Back in the fall of 1985, when I had only been in the United States a few weeks, I read a copy of Vanity Fair magazine that I'd found i...

Our vacation to the UK was almost over before it began. On the flight over, British Airways had assigned me a seat in a different row to DH ...

I didn't miss the US on our recent trip to the UK, except when we needed an open pharmacy at 8 on a Sunday evening when my son had a st...

We left the USA on July 31st for a 2 week vacation in the UK. We returned yesterday to find that it is apparently almost Halloween already a...

We are going on vacation later this summer and DH, being the organized one in the family, is already planning. He's been making a list o...

It's been too long since we were last in the UK and it's time to start thinking about another trip there. We used to go a lot more o...

mom/Mum and Nappy Valley Mum both blogged about kids' birthday parties recently. I blogged about food at birthday parties, but they ha...

I do like looking through the list of of search terms used by people who found my blog. Searches for Smarties vs M&Ms seem to have fin...

Since starting to blog, and choosing to blog much of the time about being an expat, I have met many other expats online. Michael Harling is ...

DD went to a classmate's birthday party this afternoon. They had rented a local ice rink. The group had the entire rink to themselves fo...

When I came to the United States, it was to do a Master's degree. I could have done that in the UK, though quite frankly at the time it ...

When I was growing up, we regularly went camping on our summer holidays. I'm sure my parents would have quite liked to stay in hotels, b...

"These directions are for planning purposes only. You may find that construction projects, traffic, or other events may cause road cond...

create your own personalized map of the USA Over 20 years and this is all I've managed to visit? Pathetic really, especially as 'Flo...

When a colleague referred yesterday to the landmasses on either side of the Straights of Gibraltar as Russia and the United States, I was un...

Today's post is from a guest blogger (actually, I'm just posting an email she sent me) - my mum, who recently spent a couple of days...

Too many years ago now, I spent a summer living in Taiwan. I lived with a Taiwanese family, took the bus to work every day, and even ate out...

My parents recently paid us a visit from the UK. The immigration official at the airport told my father that he had a 'problem' beca...

To balance my earlier post on why some Americans shouldn't be allowed to travel - the British on vacation abroad don't have a parti...

Okay, there are probably some Brits who shouldn't be allowed to travel either, and these stories are probably apocryphal, but this was m...