Expat Africa

17/10/2016

You know the saying Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all ? Well, I think it might be the opposite in the case of domest...

25/07/2016

Moving to Africa? Better check your impatience before entering, take a deep breath, and learn how your typical days of running errands will look like from now on.

05/07/2016

Yes, there is internet in Zambia. No, it's not the jungle. Or Congo. Or Zimbabwe. If you get your facts wrong people will notice. And laugh.

Western writer sparks social media storm over book outlining her experiences of war, spiders and ‘smiling children with HIV’

22/06/2016

Yup.

13/06/2016

My favorite South Africanisms after two years of living here as an expat.

21/05/2016

Tee hee :-)

Are you a foreign aid worker who only talks to other aid workers? Here’s how to survive – and maybe one day escape – the trap

18/05/2016

26/04/2016

When it comes to cooking, everything I know I learned in Somalia. Well, not really. But I like how it sounds and I did learn a lot. Then, I started...

25/04/2016

15/04/2016

Now I need to go back to Zambia just to travel on this road. Wow.

06/03/2016

Household Ops Team is definitely a lot better than "wife" or the dreaded "trailing spouse"!

13/02/2016

It turns out that yes, there are things to do in Gabs....

Things to do in Gaborone, Botswana by Marilu Peries · 11/02/2016 Gaborone – Botswana’s sleepy capital city of only 200,000 residents – may not be high on everyone’s travel bucket list. But ‘Gabs’, as it’s affectionately known by locals, makes for a convenient stop-over while travelling to points nor…