How to make friends – and lose them – in a new country

DON’T Snog anyone’s pet dog. At least, not until they know you very well

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Melburnians are wimps

Cold is swimming in a heated outdoor pool in Moscow on January 2 with air temperatures of -20C that make the steam rising from the water so thick that you can’t see the floating turd some comedian has deposited until it’s too late to take evasive action

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Expat forums: beware the dangers

If we’d believed what we read online about teaching in Australia, Fran would only have found work teaching AIDS-infected, one-legged dingo-Aboriginal cross breeds in a pit of snakes in the middle of the Simpson desert and would have to pay for the pleasure

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Overcoming jet lag through one gorgeous sunset

the calm was only broken by families cycling past or flocks of bright green and orange parakeets screeching overhead, their dazzling underbellies reflecting the setting sun as they wheeled from east to west and back into their nests

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