Expats, where are you for Christmas?

I'm sitting in a cafe on a break from work in Hanoi. Get two days of for new years though and two weeks in Feb so not too bad.

Mr. Manager

Sitting in the office in Malta

Beats what I'd be doing in Ireland for sure!

Micky Dolenz

I came back to the mother land.

bohsman

In work, in Malta. Nice and warm out at least.

Gosub

Spain, and it's sh¡te!

Making plans to return to the Ould Sod for good. I know, I know.... why? Because it's my country and it needs me my soul needs it.

mfceiling

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Sitting in the office in Malta

Beats what I'd be doing in Ireland for sure!

bohsman wrote: »

In work, in Malta. Nice and warm out at least.

You two could meet up.........it would be like an episode of noel edmonds christmas show.

Mr. Manager

mfceiling wrote: »

You two could meet up.........it would be like an episode of noel edmonds christmas show.

We did meet up funnily enough. He's sitting beside me in the office.

And I'll probably see him later too when I go home seeing as he's my housemate :P

Micky Dolenz

How romantic.

kneemos

I was never called Pat.

the keen edge

mfceiling wrote: »

You two could meet up.........it would be like an episode of noel edmonds christmas show.

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

We did meet up funnily enough. He's sitting beside me in the office.

And I'll probably see him later too when I go home seeing as he's my housemate :P

Wow that was quick. So much for taking it slow.

squod

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm sitting in a cafe on a break from work in Hanoi. Get two days of for new years though and two weeks in Feb so not too bad.

''Working'' in Hanoi ?

swimming in a sea

Pyongyang, working as a Kim Jong-un body double.

squod

squod wrote: »

''Working'' in Hanoi ?

Ya.

yermandan

Happy Christmas to you all

Where To

yermandan wrote: »

Happy Christmas to you all

Are you in the Egyptian denial or the Sudanese denial?

sheikhnguyen

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm sitting in a cafe on a break from work in Hanoi. Get two days of for new years though and two weeks in Feb so not too bad.

Been there done that, gowan down the R&R for a few with the best crowd in town. i myself am in the mountains of South Korea at present with a belly full of wine. Merry Christmas one and all.

coolbeans

What's the difference between an expat and an emigrant?

Mr Burgess

Makati City, Manila.

squod

coolbeans wrote: »

What's the difference between an expat and an emigrant?

50% more wages.

biko

coolbeans wrote: »

What's the difference between an expat and an emigrant?

Only Irish can be ex-Pats.

was.deevey

Makati City, Manila.

Snap

Sunnyisland

North side of Dublin :-)

sheikhnguyen

sheikhnguyen wrote: »

Been there done that, gowan down the R&R for a few with the best crowd in town. i myself am in the mountains of South Korea at present with a belly full of wine. Merry Christmas one and all.

Ah it's moved and I haven't made it to the new one yet.. Meetin a few for bia hoi in a while
It's no wine but it works.

Merry Christmas.

El Horseboxo

Only of Irish descent but in Oklahoma away from 'home'.

Pugins

In a land down under

JohnCleary

I was sitting on a beach on Koh Phangan last Christmas day, with a bottle of Buckfast by my side (I sh1te you not) - Wasn't working though, was just lining the stomach for the full moon party that night :pac:

FearDark

New Zealand... sunburnt to death.

Auldloon

Merry Christmas exiles! I'm in scotland where I live but heading to South Africa tomorrow on hols yippee:)

Oranage2

Lying in bed with 2 blankets fully dressed with 2 jumpers on, a body warmer, jeans and a pair of gloves with a candle and a book beside me for when the power cuts in a hotel with wifi in Kathmandu.

msg11

Ex-Patrick..

dd972

coolbeans wrote: »

What's the difference between an expat and an emigrant?

maybe one day in the future expats and immigrants will just be human beings residing where they want on the land mass of their choice, your consciousness in your head is the real you, you are not your birthplace or the nation state jurisdiction you randomly happened to be born in.

kraggy

Seoul.

Liam90

FearDark wrote: »

New Zealand... sunburnt to death.

Have family there, heard they had a scorcher this Christmas.

BraziliaNZ

I'm back in Dubbers from London. My booze hell

Eve_Dublin

Back in Dub-i-lin from Spay-in.

BrokenArrows

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I'm back in Dubbers from London. My booze hell

I came home from the uk. I'm always horrified at the cost of a night on the booze.

Sound of Silence

dd972 wrote: »

maybe one day in the future expats and immigrants will just be human beings residing where they want on the land mass of their choice, your consciousness in your head is the real you, you are not your birthplace or the nation state jurisdiction you randomly happened to be born in.

So brave.

Mr. Loverman

In Beijing. Eating McDonald's (they deliver here) and trying to figure out why my new server is offline. Sleepy. It's 3:25 AM.

Promac

Also sunburnt in NZ.

InTheTrees

Seattle.

Close your eyes and listen to the endless unrelenting Rain and its almost like home.

Happy Xmas!

Tonto86

Calgary, Alberta.

Me and the missus having our first Canadian xmas

MadsL

Had one of the strangest tbh, spent Christmas Eve midnight to 2am in a Native American pueblo up on top of a mesa above a 300ft cliff, miles out in the desert, no electricity, bonfires and candlelight only for light, watching traditional Buffalo and Deer dances in a mission church built in 1625.

Twasn't like your average midnight mass to say the least.

Talk To Frank

15 Yemen Road, Yemen.

Manic Moran

In-laws' place, near San Francisco. Pretty much routine

InTheTrees

coolbeans wrote: »

What's the difference between an expat and an emigrant?

An expat leaves because they want to and an emigrant leaves because they have to.

Something like that? I'm just guessing...

osarusan

Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan.

keithclancy

Having a smoke in the shed, oh is murdering the remains of the lamb for a curry tray we will have later.

Haven't been in Ireland for Christmas 5 years running.

Might watch the office later with a beer.

Eindhoven, Netherlands

An *expatriate* (in abbreviated form,*expat*) is a person temporarily or permanently residing
 in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing. The word comes from theLatin
 terms "ex
" ("out of") and "patria
"("country, fatherland").

Marcusm

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I'm back in Dubbers from London. My booze hell

Is Dubbers near Nobber?

BraziliaNZ

Marcusm wrote: »

Is Dubbers near Nobber?

yuppers

population

Naples. But then I am here every day

dd972

Sound of Silence wrote: »

So brave.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989