by Tracey | Mar 28, 2024 | Humour, solo travel, Travel
This time next week I’ll be in sunny Athens. I’m combining this with a few days riding horses on the vehicle-less Greek island of Hydra. Can’t wait. Though the old seat bones are already complaining. They haven’t been on a horse in quite some time. I see their point....
by Exmoor1 | Mar 26, 2021 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, citizenship, Living abroad, relocation, solo travel, Travel
As the United Kingdom begins the countdown to loosening lockdown restrictions, all eyes turn to the sky. Or the train tracks. Or the road. We’re chomping at the bit to get out of our houses, towns, countries after three months of this third confinement. But with new...
by Exmoor1 | Sep 30, 2020 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, citizenship, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Humor, Humour, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, solo travel, Transatlantic, Travel
Bubbles used to be fun, didn’t they? My dog, Basil, certainly thought so. He’d leap around the garden, snapping at them as they bobbed on the breeze. He’d look through crossed eyes in shock when they popped on his nose, like it had never happened before. He’d stamp...
by Exmoor1 | Aug 31, 2020 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British in the USA, citizenship, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, solo travel, Transatlantic, Travel
Seven thirty on a Sunday morning and I’m in the woods between Porlock and Porlock Weir on the Somerset coast. Steep combes reach up toward the blue skies, the smooth waters of the Bristol Channel pave the way to Wales. After days of rain sunlight dapples the muddy...
by Exmoor1 | Jul 29, 2020 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, Humor, Humour, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, solo travel, Transatlantic, Travel
My second month in England has passed without major incident. In this crazy world, ‘without major incident’ counts as a win, surely? (I’m touching a piece of wood as I speak. It is 2020 after all.) I just wish there were a bit more ‘winning’ come out of the US. News...
by Exmoor1 | Jun 30, 2020 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British in the USA, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, solo travel, Transatlantic, Travel
It’s been one month since I arrived back in England after a thirty-year visit to America. If you’d asked me a year ago what vocabulary I’d be using to describe my feelings at my return home, I’d have said relief, comfort, joy. And those feelings apply. But they’re...
