Latest Expat Issues

• New Year’s resolution countdown

  

  I CAN’T believe how quickly 2011 has gone by. It seems like only a few days ago I was ringing in the New Year and promising myself that I would start pursuing my ultimate career as professional surfer/part time sandcastle builder.

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• Why do I have to pay to go to the bathroom?

  

  I love London. But there is one London experience that just doesn’t sit well with me.

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• Watch your step on the streets of London

  

  While the streets in the English capital may be beautiful and full of history – they’re also full of lurking dangers.

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• Fashion crime or awesome accessory?

  

  The office noose has to be the dumbest thing ever invented. The scarf, on the other hand, is luxury without the price tag.

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• A very Simmonsy Christmas

  

  What do you get when you throw one of Australia’s funniest comedians in a cold Christmassy London, shake him around a bit and let him loose with a pen? Read on to find out what funnyman SAM SIMMONS really thinks of Christmas!

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• How’s the serenity? Leaving London for Oz

  

  LIFE AFTER LONDON | Living in London has turned me into an excitable mix of a Darryl Kerrigan from The Castle, and a Japanese tourist. The full extent of this transformation became clear when my plane from London arrived at Melbourne Airport.

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• Is Australia really more expensive than the UK?

  

  ‘Austerity’ is a word I’d never heard before coming to the UK. I had to look it up. Coming from the land of milk and honey, ‘prosperity’ was the word of choice, especially in WA. But has Australia really changed so much over the past five years?

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• When London gets you down, wish upon a Eurostar

  

  Eventually those sweet rhythms of life in London seem more like the grating sound of a skipping CD. But wait, there is respite…

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• Umbrella etiquette – because the rain affects us all

  

  Let me be clear from the beginning, when it rains (as a result of the Hydrologic Cycle, that’s right Mr Costello, I was paying attention in Year 9 Science!) it falls on EVERYBODY!!!

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• Aussie student life in London

  

  Life in London can be described as hectic at best. With a population of over seven million and everyone in a hurry to get somewhere, a laid back 21-year old Aussie student was definitely in for the shock of his life.

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• Ticking off the Top 100 things to do in London

  

  BRON IN THE DON | To tick off London’s Top 100 things to do and see, that is my mission and I have chosen to accept it! The mission started a few weeks ago when a friend of mine picked up a little book that features London’s Top 100.

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• An Aussie dwarf detonates in England

  

  Some of my Pommy mates reckon I take things too far sometimes. I support Australia and anyone who is playing England. I don’t see why I have to relax my sporting beliefs just because I live here in the UK.

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• The difference between good and bad luck

  

  Sometimes you think you have had a fantastic stroke of luck, only to discover that this luck was in fact the root cause of all the unfortunate events that followed.

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• I miss missing stuff

  

  Halfway across London Bridge I decide to stop and look out over the Thames. Light drizzle falls as I reach into my pocket and pull out the keychain she gave me.

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• Is the Melbourne Cup Australia’s Grand National?

  

  Back in Australia, I had an annual dose of horse racing on the first Tuesday in November courtesy of ‘the race that stops the nation’, the Melbourne Cup. Every year from early primary school I was part of a sweep, crowded round a TV at ten to three and cheered the horses home.

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• Public Announcement: Please chuck a sickie!

  

  The chill is in the air, the scarves and coats have been wrenched from the back of the wardrobe and dusted off but the most ominous sign that winter has arrived… the cough!

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• When pants, bollocks and snogging is all you need

  

  Aussies swarm to the UK like ‘scousers to a tash convention’ but sometimes we can get a bit mixed up with all the different lingo. NINA McGRATH explores the weird and wonderful world of British slang.

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• English banks are not so advanced

  

  Don’t be stung by English dates and their ability to go backwards in going forward.

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• Don’t let your landlords take you for a ride

  

  Sometimes it feels as if the renting business is an ongoing battle. Sinister feudal masters against the meek and vulnerable that just don’t stand a chance. So, it’s time to take issue with Landlords.

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• The great debate: chips vs crisps

  

  Choose your flavour, choose your colour, choose your chip. Just don’t call them crisps!

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