Christopher's Expat Adventure

Today is the  European Day of Languages  again.  The EU promote linguistic diversity and encourages everyone to speak multiple foreign lang...

Today is the 5th of November which is Guy Fawkes night.  So Happy Bonfire night to all of my Commonwealth peeps.   Here's a bit about th...

NATO has something something called Partnership for Peace (PfP).  It's a bilateral cooperation programme between NATO and Euro-Atlantic...

When I first moved here I made a comment at work that I was going to get so fat here with this being the land of beer and potatoes.  A frien...

There are no hard rules about where exactly the Middle East is.  Some consider it to be a geographical term and others consider it a poli...

Unemployment is low in Czechland.  It has been falling since January and as of September is is 5,2%. The last several quarters have seen ...

Of the 28 EU countries, the top five with the fastest internet speeds are Romania , Netherlands , Sweden , Lithuania , and Latvia . The ...

The last two weeks in Crete and Cyprus were great.  The first stop was Heraklion , Crete. What's left of the operations station ...

©Lonely Planet On Thursday we had an 8,5 hour bus tour to visit Kykkos and Kakopetria.  We rode through the Troodos Mountains which is ...

On Wednesday we had a bus tour to visit Salamis and Famagusta in  Northern Cyprus . Salamis is an ancient city that was founded after t...