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Planning Your Trip Through Uruguay – Part 3
March 16, 2006
Well, now I'm really annoyed! It is becoming increasingly hard to remain skeptical when everything is working properly. Both ADSL lines are working (all we did to the…
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Planning Your Trip Through Uruguay – Part 2
March 4, 2006
Last night we had our first real taste of customer service in a semi-emergency. It was pouring rain when the main circuit breaker shut off - and nothing we could do…
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Planning Your Trip Through Uruguay
First, a few facts. (If you are among the cognoscenti, you can skip the next paragraphs.)
Uruguay is in South America. It is on the Atlantic Ocean south of Brazil and North of…
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Planning Your Visit To Georgia
Planning Your Visit To Georgia
A visit to Georgia is a heart-warming experience. The Georgians are friendly people, and for much of the year, Georgia is a warm inviting country. I live…
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Overseas with a Toddler: Traveling in Italy
Overseas with a Toddler: Traveling in Italy
My husband and I and our two-year-old daughter spent July traveling in Italy. We wanted maximum enjoyment with minimum hassles, so we began…
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A New Life in Kabul: Living In Afghanistan – Part 2
Please make sure you've read Part 1: A New Life in Kabul: Living in Afghanistan
Probably the biggest misconception of Afghanistan is that it is a nation of fundamentalists, angry at…
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A New Life in Kabul: Living In Afghanistan
It’s just past midnight on a Thursday evening, and the party is going strong. A generator pumps artificial light into the green-walled restaurant, where about 50 people sit smoking and…
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The Many Advantages Of Living In The Philippines
The Many Advantages Of Living In The Philippines
Tired of the rat-race that America has become? Then try something different, there is a place where things move at a slow pace, where…
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Living and Working in Fiji
Living and Working in Fiji
Suva, The Capital
Bula! (hello). Living in Fiji can be just about what you make it. It can be cheap or expensive depending on the lifestyle you chose to…
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Living in Thailand, Teaching English at the University
Living in Thailand, Teaching English at the University
What kind of job do you have? I teach English at Chiang Mai University, known in northern Thailand as maw-chaw. (Maw-chaw is the…
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Living Warm and Dry in Cosy Southeast Ireland
Living Warm and Dry in Cosy Southeast Ireland
When people see Ireland’s rugged, spectacular west coast, they are often so overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of it all that they sell their…
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Living In Paris And Adjusting To The French Way
Living In Paris And Adjusting To The French Way
My trusty American Heritage Dictionary says that an "intricacy" is something having many complexly arranged elements, elaborate, and…
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Living In Paradise Without Working
Living In Paradise Without Working
So, you’ve decided to move to “paradise”... but how are you going to survive financially?
As Cecil Lewis says in The Trumpet is Mine, the whole…
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Living in the Azores
Living in the Azores
Deirdre and I both work via the Internet, so we decided to spend some years moving around the world and experiencing new places and cultures, a few months in each.…
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Living in the Himalayan Highlands of India – Part 3
Moving
Finding a house to rent can be difficult, simply because there are still relatively few modern houses here, and many of these are already rented by expats on long-term leases.…
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Living in the Himalayan Highlands of India – Part 2
Infrastructure
While the Indian economy is booming, the government continues to control most essential infrastructure, and provide slow, incomplete service. Many roads are rough and…
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Living In The Himalayan Highlands Of India
Living In The Himalayan Highlands Of India
For the last four years, my husband and I have been traveling the world looking for a place to call home.
We have considered, visited, and…
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Living in Hanoi, Vietnam: It Has Never Been So Easy!
What do most people from the USA think about when they hear the word, Vietnam? Do you think war? News clips from the 1970's? A time when things really spun out of control?
What most…
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Living in the Dominican Republic: The First Six Months – Part 4
If you are a developer, really understand and know construction, are fluent in Spanish (or have a trusted colleague who is), and have working capital, there is a fortune to be made in…
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Living in Chile: Learning to Survive
I’ve been living in South America; near Santiago, Chile off and on for almost three years. Usually, I spend six months in the U.S. and six months here.
Santiago, Chile is a city with…
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