- Aeroplanes and Airports - scary flights, unairworthy
craft, funny announcements, the day your luggage ended up in Timbuktu.
- Bars and Restaurants - funny menu items, suspect hygiene
conditions, rioutous nights on the town.
- Bribery, Corruption, Conmen and Scams - rip-off merchants,
anything shady to get the deal done.
- Drivers, Nannies and Servants - it's not always domestic
bliss.
- Sports - rugby tours, extreme playing conditions, colourful
team-mates and dubious sporting achievements.
- Officialdom, Embassy and Diplomatic - getting tangled
in red tape. Immigration issues. Deportation. Government paperwork.
- Hotels, Travel and Holidays - the best and worst experiences
from the jungle to the desert. When it wasn't exactly what the
brochure promised. Fawlty Towers revisited.
- Housing, Landlords, Contractors - The trouble in getting
a roof over your head or the plumbing fixed.
- Hospitals, Medicos and Witchdoctors - did someone say
'quack'? Emergency evacuations. Strange and dangerous medical
practices.
- Language Difficulties - overcoming the linguistic barriers,
misunderstandings with humourous results.
- Office and Work - why it's not quite the same as London
or New York head office.
- Police and Military encounters - the long baton of the
law, staring down the barrel. Spending time in the slammer.
- Transport - overcrowded buses, trucks, taxis, cars, camels.
Not to mention some dodgy drivers.Getting there is half the fun.
- Coming and Going - what made you come to this part of
the world, what made you stay, why you left, and how you felt
going back to the 'real' world.
- General - anything else you can possibly think of, not
covered above. Such as getting more than you bargained for in
a market, dating or marrying a local and learning the cultural
differences the hard way, whatever.
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