Two Fat Expats

Phew – Kirsty’s son does not have Coronavirus, so the streak of no new cases in South Australia continues. This week’s 4 Fat Questions Boarding schools in other countries, are you reconsidering this for your child/ren given issues around current international travel? If you are moving THIS summer, what additional hurdles are there? Leaving rituals, how have you left places before, how do you leave during Covid 19? How will.. Read More

We talk Mother’s Day 2020 and Germany’s current R number which is creeping over 1.1 right now and may mean changes in Nikki’s future. This week’s 4 Fat Questions Does an expat have the right to protest in their host country? If you were going to double your bubble who would you pick? Would it upset anyone? How important is your luggage to you? Is quarantine fatigue something that expats.. Read More

Kirsty’s kids are back to the boarding house, Nikki’s kids are still online learning even though some grades levels at their school have gone back, Covid 19 rolls on into May 2020. This week’s 4 Fat Questions What does one wear to an online graduation ceremony? What have you ticked off in Covid 19 bingo? Is there anyone out there who still thinks they are going ‘home’ for (Northern Hemisphere).. Read More

Here are our stories. Gathered from our podcast listeners and members of our Two Fat Expats facebook group. We have compiled messages from Fatterati based around the world. Listen to stories from Switzerland China Vanuatu Singapore Germany PNG / Australia US – including Texas and Puerto Rico Thank you to all that contributed! We love to hear and share everyone’s stories. Got an update to your current situation? Send it.. Read More

ANZAC day is over and the Covid Safe App launches in Australia, this week Germany mandated masks for wearing in supermarkets and smaller shops which are now open. This week’s 4 Fat Questions What are the tax implications for expats who have been sent home and are in their own countries? If I wasn’t an expat would I be such a big planner of all the stages of our lives?.. Read More

Time marches on, lockdown or not. The stunning spring weather continues in Hamburg and it sounds not too bad at the beach in South Australia either. This week we did a Facebook live and recorded this podcast the next day. So much talking to each other, such a treat! This week’s 4 Fat Questions What was your expat sweet spot? What’s your biggest regret about your expat life so far.. Read More

It’s Good Friday 2020 in Hamburg and Port Wilunga, but different days in our relative social distancing situations globally. The Covid lockdown continues and so do our conversations around it. Remember we are collecting your experiences too so drop us a voice message from the website or send a voice memo to twofatexpats@gmail.com and tell us about your lockdown story. This week’s 4 Fat Questions: Is this the end of.. Read More

It’s a global pandemic so it doesn’t go away in a few weeks, but our conversations today covered more pressing matters for Kirsty, G and their family. This week’s 4 Fat Questions: Can you think of any other time you have felt so globally connected? How will expat life change when this is all over? If you had to do a Ted Talk what would your topic be? Are you.. Read More

This week we continued our Corona convo, not sure that’s going away as an expat issue for a little while yet. The four fat questions this week dipped into that topic too: If your partner comes home from a business trip in the time of Corona, how does that look? How do you take care of your mental and physical health and wellbeing while expat? Would you suggest an expat.. Read More

We kick off with an update from Susan and Eva who are in China. They fill us in on the current Corona situation and what their life in China looks like right now. We’re also introducing the Fat Four Expats Questions. Each week Nikki and I have four fat questions to ask each other: What’s your expat superpower? Would you ever go on a cruise? Or as Nikki likes to.. Read More

It’s the biggest thing in world news this week and expats globally may be watching it a bit more closely than the average person or traveller. This episode starts with Erica in Beijing sending her family and friends an audio letter home, in it she shares how she and her family are feeling and dealing with the Corona based restrictions. Then Kirsty speaks with Susan, a member of the Fatterati.. Read More

This week’s topic is a revisit of one covered in the first season. It’s one that gets a bit of air time in our fabulous facebook group and also something that Kirsty and Nikki live themselves on a regular basis. So it seemed worth having a chat and sharing our own best tips as well as those from the group. We also talk about Brad Pitt, Michael Hutchence and why.. Read More

This is our first ever podcast recorded together and it should possibly come with an apology. We had a great chat, and it’s possible there was a bit of rambling BECAUSE WE WERE TOGETHER! In this episode we cover owning a house in your home country. Transitioning your children from expat to repat without you. Kirsty’s daughter Lizzie gave us a piece of gold on what moving is all about… Read More

We’ve already talked this season about the difficulty of finding a job when you repatriate and heard from some of our community about how that went down in the episode Is your expat experience working against you? This week we spoke to a HR expert Mark Daniel about how to be ready to look and the best way to go about that. Nikki forgot to give the full picture on.. Read More

We’ve talked a lot this season about doing things to make your expat life fatter, but are we actually following our own advice? We hit pause on new topics this week to review our discussions so far and see if we are actually following our own advice and the advice of our amazing expat community, or not. Listen in to hear our results so far. Kirsty has found her 5.. Read More