Tag Archives: Heathrow
Culture Shock
Lucy Strange ♦ 11/05/2013 ♦ 76 Comments
Everyone who moves abroad expects a certain amount of what is known as ‘culture shock’: the feeling of being disorientated by the fundamental differences that surround you. All the things you have been conditioned to accept as ‘normal’ are, in fact, far from normal in your new home; your brain has to totally rewrite the …
Fly Away Home
Lucy Strange ♦ 16/04/2013 ♦ 34 Comments
This time three weeks ago, Homesick and Heatstruck was soon to be Happily Homeward Bound. I hadn’t visited England since last summer and, while the last eight months had trotted swiftly by, it somehow felt like I hadn’t been home in years. On returning to Dubai in August, I had made the somewhat bizarre decision to …
