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Month: November 2015

Expat Life, Life

The painfully rhetorical questions you ask when your flight is cancelled

San Francisco! There are a few emotions that you go through when that tinny voice cones over the airport PA and announces, in a reticent stutter, that your flight has been cancelled due to bad weather. For me, tiredness and the intense need for a shower trumped all those emotions.…

November 30, 2015May 10, 20171 Comment
Australia, Expat Life, Life, Travel, Uncategorised

Why Aussies can’t say “No” and other linguistic failures

That’s not my name! “Can I have the chicken salad and a bottle of water please?” “Sorry?” “I just wanted to order the chicken salad. And a water.” *confused look* “I don’t understand you.” I’ll spare you the entirety of this conversation, suffice to say it ended when I did…

November 19, 2015December 27, 201714 Comments
The Americas, Travel, Uncategorised

The San Francisco Bucket List

Yep, that’s me on the right: cranky, balding and slightly strange.  I need a Morgan Freeman to play opposite my Jack Nicholson. That’s right kids, I’m getting all old and making a Bucket List. Actually it’s more like I don’t want to be that person who moves to a new…

November 12, 2015May 10, 201720 Comments
Expat Life, Life, Uncategorised

Holy flying burrito Batman!

Not strange at all… It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a city in possession of a good amount of technically savvy occupants must also be overrun by strange and sometimes pointless inventions. Silicon Valley is that place and if you want a robot boss or a drone to deliver…

November 8, 2015March 22, 20174 Comments
Expat Life, Life, Uncategorised

All Hallow’s Eve

Excuse the Halloween wrap-up delay – I was slightly busy being a human sloth and sleeping off sickness. The good news is that I got a good 17 hours of shut eye, so I should be good for at least the next three days. Halloween was both awesome and slightly…

November 4, 2015March 22, 20171 Comment

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