Two Fat Expats

Making Expat Life Large

Travel timelines, moving things, special items and global mobility slowdowns

Exams are over and Buddy is off to puppy pre-school. This week’s 4 Fat Questions Have your children ever done a travel timeline? How to move items that are too big to go on the plane with you but too expensive to send via courier? Do you have a favourite outfit or personal item from your expat life? Will a global economic slowdown mean a global mobility slowdown? Things we’re.. Read More

Repatriation during Covid 19, significant birthdays, sending bags and cost of living calculators

It’s sparkling online learning exam week in Hamburg and an exciting new resident has arrived in Port Wilunga. This week’s 4 Fat Questions What do you look for in a cost of living comparison website? Repatriation this year, what will look different? Send my bag or Parcels to go? Significant birthdays during Covid? The book website – From a Birdie, the aggregator sending parcels / packages website – Easyship.com, Cost.. Read More

Carrying desktop computers, kids changing hemispheres, expat funerals and are International Schools as diverse as they appear?

Kirsty mentions something about the ‘football’, and it sounded pretty exciting to her. Also the TFE Fatterati AFL tipping competition re-starts this week, find the link and details in the facebook group. This week’s 4 Fat Questions How do you move your desktop computer, hand baggage, checked or container? When you change hemispheres do your children jump forward six months or settle in for six months? Have you been to.. Read More

Expat kids in local schools, what to take to quarantine, first time expat mistakes and shipping in the time of Covid.

Nikki’s kids return to school but not quite the same way as Kirsty’s, another reminder of our different Corona worlds. This week’s 4 Fat Questions If your child goes to school in another country, how do you deal with things you don’t agree with? 14 days in Quarantine as it is done in Australia now (put in hotel room for the entire time), what would you pack to take in.. Read More