One solution to the weak dollar?
Having been earning a good honest English wage for the last fifteen years or so, it’s come as a bit of a shock to the system to be earning a US salary. Sure, I’ve been happily feasting on the weak dollar for the last eighteen months as I’ve travelled back and forth across the Atlantic. [...]
A whole new world
It was a packed subway train that hurtled me into the city for my first day at work today, with more people crammed into one carriage of the enormous silver train than you’d likely see on the terraces of Chester City FC on the average Saturday. Nobody talks to anybody, obviously. New York’s no different [...]
A heavy price to pay
One of the things that nobody ever mentions when you’re leaving one country for another is the huge cost. Not the cost of getting all your stuff transported from one side of the world to another, although that’s bad enough. No, I’m talking about the price that your liver has to pay as you see [...]
Stormy weather
I thought by leaving this country, I would at least be getting away from torrential downpours, permanently grey days, and transport systems that grind to a halt at the mere suggestion of precipitation. Seems I was wrong. The wrong kind of rain, maybe? Add to: Hide Sites
Ready, steady….
There are many things I’ll miss about London life, but there’s one irrational and wholly inconsequential behavioural trait that I’ll be glad to kiss goodbye to – Oystercard Unreadiness Syndrome. Maybe you’ve not heard of this disease that’s currently rampaging through our capital city, but you’ve almost certainly seen it. It predominates in women, although [...]
