Queues likely

                                          
British people love to queue (or so it seems at least). They form an orderly queue in almost every situation.  When people ask me how Germans handle the dilemma of 100 people wanting to get on a bus with 40 seats, I never really have a satisfying answer. I don’t really know to be [...]

Happy Birthday Sue!

A former colleague of mine in the US told me, what I thought was, a sad story. She is originally from Spain and lives in an affluent neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and 2 kids, who are both under 10 years of age and attend local schools. My friend was [...]

Defeated Kiwis and Dr Who?

I’ve just come back from Cardiff where I spent the weekend with my husband’s family. You might just expect a stiff breeze and lots of sheep when going to Wales, but actually there was loads of stuff going on there… And I realised again that even after 4 years of living in the UK, there [...]