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Teaching English in Spain

Night view of Plaza Mayor, Madrid

While we’re on the topic of Making the Big Move, I thought I might share with you how I started teaching English in the saucy and vibrant capital of Spain, Madrid. Sassy and spirited, Madrid is just like a sultry Flamenco dancer – full of energy, passion and thirst for life. Teaching English here gave [...]

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How to Take Baby Steps to Making the Big Move

Teaching in Tanzania

This post was sponsored by HBF Comprehensive Travel Insurance. Through the past few years of moving from one city to another, many people have asked me these questions again and again, ‘How do you get all that money to travel?’, ‘Have you considered carefully about what it will do to your career?’ , and of [...]

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Soaking up Paradise – Boracay

In this little piece of heaven, we found peace and tranquility, and a kind of calm. For a moment there, I was in a paradisical high. It really felt like an escape from reality. Everything they said about Boracay was real. A tiny island that only existed in our fantasy. Not overcrowded with tourists, nor [...]

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Beijing musings

The Forbidden City

China was a whole new world.. a mixture between ecclectic modernization and in-your-face sorta tradtions. Besides the incessant spittings from the Chinese pple, and the weird tongue-rolling Beijing accent, we were constantly thrilled and amused by these true to their hearts Chinese. First thing first, FOOD! Pekin duck and spicy chicken! the signboard reads DOG [...]

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Roaming the deserts of Egypt & Jordan

White Desert in Bahariya, Egypt

A few snapshots from our time in the White Desert, Egypt, and Wadi Rum, Jordan. Entering the Bahariya Oasis of the Western Desert, Egypt The White Desert Setting up camp in the middle of the desert. Breakfast on the sand.   Our campground in Wadi Rum, Jordan  Bedouins roaming the desert on their camels. The [...]

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Swahili time – Moshi

Colourful markets in the village

Swahili time – oh yes, East Africans have their own way of telling the time. The day officially starts at 7am – which is 1am for them (saa moja asubuhi).It continues on until 7pm – the start of the evening/night for them, thus called 1pm Swahili time. It is amazing and hilarious when …

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