Love, An Expat

I think I’ve finally gone over or at least seen the top edge of the expat wall instead of continually hitting it face first over and over again.
Until I started blogging about my expat experience, I hadn’t realized how many expats scattered about the world actually do blog.  There are entire communities of expat bloggers who blog like [...]

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Seriously? No prescription necessary?

I came back to Mauritius after our whirlwind of travels with a nasty cold and a sore throat.  I was struck down in Key West and it just never went away. 
Maybe it was the all the fly time in the various airplanes or perhaps my body had just lost it’s ability to fight off the [...]

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Something salty this way comes

Shopping for groceries on this island is really an entertaining experience.  In Mauritius what you buy one week, may or may not be on the store shelves the next week.  It all depends on what ships make it past the pirates, the storms and the political unrest. 
Our container of personal goods, for example,  was delayed by almost [...]

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A Day of Mold

Deep winter has arrived on the island and I find myself wearing socks.  I never realized how much I enjoyed a nice, fluffy pair of socks until I  went without for almost eleven months.  It’s nice to be back in the softness for a while.  Island folk say that this is the dry season, but [...]

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