This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Alexa, an American expat who was recently working and living in Marrakech.  Morocco was a chaotic, overwhelming and amazing place to live for the three months I called it home. It isn’t for everyone but it has tons of personality and I loved living there. I did a work away […]

This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Julie, an American expat who’s currently working and living in London.  It’s getting to be summer in London. The days are getting long, the nights are short. It’s warm enough out for the windows to be cracked during the night, which inevitably means I am woken early by the […]

This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Rebecca, an Australian expat who’s currently working and living in Dubai.  I live out of the popular expat hubs of downtown and Dubai Marina, in a residential area called Al Barsha. It is less crowded, there aren’t any towering skyscrapers and it just has a more ‘local’ feel […]

Tonight I walked down a street in Chiang Mai I’ve been down a hundred times before. I’ve been down it a hundred times because I’ve now been based here for four years. It’s the longest time I’ve had the same “home” since high school and feels like a lifetime ago that I was working in Seattle and […]

This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Alison, a Canadian woman who’s currently working and living in Kuwait with her husband.  When I tell people that I live in Kuwait, most of them vaguely nod not knowing exactly where it is.  Then I clarify and tell them we’re neighbours with Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and eyes usually go […]

I’ve been back in Thailand for more than two months now (I swear time goes more quickly in Chiang Mai…). I never meant for this site to become a ‘living in Thailand blog’ but then again, I never expected to be staying here so long with. The questions and my answers/experiences below are a follow […]

As a foreigner, when you hear or read about Songkran, you often hear about the crazy “largest water fight in the world”. It can get really crazy. For three days to celebrate the Thai New Year (which is based on the lunar calendar and actually celebrated throughout much of Southeast Asia) businesses close, workers get […]

This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Marie, a French woman who’s currently working and living in Hong Kong. Originally from South France, I now live in Hong Kong. My average day starts with an early wake-up, a jog in the waterfront when the weather is nice (and when my motivation awakened too!), a shower and a […]

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley This month marks the 2-year anniversary of Paper Planes – which feels strange to say since, depending on the day, it either seems like I’ve been doing this forever or […]

This past weekend marked my three year anniversary of leaving Seattle and moving to Southeast Asia. Though at the time I didn’t really think of it as ‘moving’, more like I was leaving for an extended trip, I’ve now used Chiang Mai as a home base for longer than anywhere else I’ve lived after high […]