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Guest Post by Jack Scott: We are all Immigrants

I was listening to a debate on BBC Radio from the sunny sanctuary of my Bodrum balcony. It was about immigration, something of a national obsession in Britain, particularly now that the recession has started to really hurt. Some of the comments were intelligent and thoughtful, others were plain stupid. It made me think. How [...]

Expat Book Review: Perking the Pansies

Not many people read my blog, but a couple of thoses who do have suggested turning it into a book. I don’t know about that. But I do know (in the internet sense) someone who did turn his expat blog into a book:  Jack Scott, who writes the popular blog Perking the Pansies, is now [...]

Turkish Medical Care

It had been over a week since Billy’s motorbike accident, and he was still in pain. He’d originally thought there was no point in getting an x-ray, because there isn’t anything to be done for fractured ribs anyway.  But as our trip to Italy grew closer, and more and more of his friends suggested he [...]