Episode 98, Two Fat Expats is nearly 100 episodes old! We do some party planning in this episode, see our list of #’s below and send us a message using the little microphone ‘Hi, my name is Nikki, I listen to Two Fat Expats from Hamburg, Germany.‘ As always we’d love to hear from you .Kirsty’s husband G jetted in secret spy fashion to Adelaide and pulled off a fabulous surprise for their eldest daughter’s 18th birthday.  Nikki spoke to Vanessa in Geneva who signed her expat contract then found out she was pregnant. We also introduce the GET – great expat tip, this week it’s about suitcases.

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GET (Great Expat Tip) – If traveling for summer, pack your suitcase inside another so you have an extra suitcase at the end of the summer.

Books, Movies, Telly, Podcasts and Food

Kirsty

Movies –Absolutely Champers, Golden Exit, Breathe  Don’t watch – Brothers (see I didn’t even link to it)

Other media – Donald Glover music video and the NPR explanation

Nikki

Books – The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen

Telly – The Let Down, 13 Reasons Why Season 2  13 Reasons Why webpage with teen mental health support info

Podcasts –Out of the Loop, The Full Catastrophe Emma Alberici

After the Easter break and we had a LOT to catch up on and to share about all things Expat. Moving season is approaching and some of your friends may have announced their departure, or maybe it’s you. We talked about the emotions and keeping in touch with friends near and far. Nikki had a very welcome visitor over Easter and in Kirsty’s house there was a very exciting announcement. We forgot the word for QR code when chatting about password apps, we might need a tech support call on password security and computer virus issues. Long discussion about teens and porn, and then we rolled into a Don’t Blow Your Dough follow up chat about the bonus episode. Nikki spoke to Sadea in E is for Edmonton.

This episode has been released in two parts.

Books, Movies, Telly, Podcasts and Food

Kirsty

Movies – The Greatest Showman, I, Tonya

Podcasts – The Guardian’s Long Audio Reads

Books – Little Fires Everywhere

Nikki

Telly – Good Girls (can be seen on Hulu and Apple tv)

Podcasts – Australian Audio Guide, Australian Podcast Awards, Fierce Girls, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls

Instagram – Sarah Ferguson

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After the Easter break and we had a LOT to catch up on and to share about all things Expat. Moving season is approaching and some of your friends may have announced their departure, or maybe it’s you. We talked about the emotions and keeping in touch with friends near and far. Nikki had a very welcome visitor over Easter and in Kirsty’s house there was a very exciting announcement. We forgot the word for QR code when chatting about password apps, we might need a tech support call on password security and computer virus issues. Long discussion about teens and porn, and then we rolled into a Don’t Blow Your Dough follow up chat about the bonus episode. Nikki spoke to Sadea in E is for Edmonton.

This episode will be released in two parts.

Books, Movies, Telly, Podcasts and Food

Kirsty

Movies – The Greatest Showman, I, Tonya

Podcasts – The Guardian’s Long Audio Reads

Books – Little Fires Everywhere

Nikki

Telly – Good Girls

Podcasts – Australian Audio Guide, Australian Podcast Awards, Fierce Girls, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls

Instagram – Sarah Ferguson

Here it is, the bonus episode that we played a snippet of in Build buy or renovate overseas, don’t blow your dough and C is for Copenhagen.

An open (and recorded) conversation between Kirsty and her husband G about the state of their dough.  Listen in as they talk about what bank accounts they have, even the ones Kirsty doesn’t know about, yet.

The first in a proposed series of conversations and bonus podcasts about not blowing your expat dough.

 

It’s Easter week, so we’re releasing a day early to celebrate. Ever heard of a Lice Mother? You have now. We talked to Denise about her important role at her children’s school. We covered about all the kinds of (free) technology you can use for your portable expat career and lifestyle. Google docs, Slack, Zoom, Freed Camp, Trello and Skype. Kirsty ran through the P names for her expat bank accounts Pay Day, Pear, Poolside and the Parachute. Listen to the bonus episodes about Expat Money for more details on these. For Location Location Location we asked Stephanie the Fat Five questions about (D is for) Durban.

Books, Movies, Telly, Podcasts and Food

Stephanie left a message with a book suggestion Good Muslim Boy

Kirsty

Telly – Squinters, A Moody Christmas

Movies – The Shape of Water, The Darkest Hour

Podcasts – All the Aussie footy podcasts that exist

Nikki

Telly – Collateral, Santa Clarita Diet Season 2

Plus, remember all your favourite radio shows in your favourite countries are probably also available on podcast

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We’re already up to the fifth episode in our ‘New Format’, do you like it, or not? If you have thoughts and opinions on it, we’d love to hear them. Kathy has just bought a house in Paris and is looking for renovation advice so we spoke to Danielle who has bought and renovated in France about her experience. The outcome of her renovation is La Pommetier.  We heard our first snippet of Kirsty and G’s expat budget conversation about not blowing their dough. For Location Location Location we asked Claire the Fat Five questions about (C is for) Copenhagen.

Books, Movies, Telly, Podcasts and Food

Bec in Abu Dhabi has been bingeing on Conversations with Richard Fidler and recommends the episode The Mission of a Flying Midwife

Kirsty

Podcast –ICYMI , Goop – Oprah (not so much)

Telly – Season 2 The Good Place, This is Us

Nikki

Telly – Rise

Podcast – Making Obama, Armchair Expert – Dax Shepard, Radio National (Australia) RN Drive and RN Morning

Plus, remember all your favourite radio shows in your favourite countries are probably also available on podcast

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Welcome back to this week’s chat packed episode of fat expat-ness. Eliza left us a message that prompted a discussion about the age old question, can you get better at being an expat over time? The jury response was mixed. Nikki spoke with Christine about the mindset of a move and how that can change your outcome and in Location Location Location we interviewed Candice about (B is for) Bangalore.

Books, Movies, Telly, Podcasts and Food

Emily the lovely listener’s book recommendation for kids and money The Opposite of Spoiled

The first podcast Nikki and Kirsty did together Season 3 Episode 1 – Does Moving Get Any Easier?  

Kirsty

Podcast – Conversations with Richard Fidler – Helen Elliot 

Telly – Blue Planet II 

Reading – I Am Malala

Travel blog mentioned by Kirsty

Nikki

Telly – Season 2 The Good Fight 

Podcast – Casefile – Episode 76 Silk Road (3 episodes)

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What a great episode this week, full of laughter, chats, great interviews, some listener voice messages and our opening entry for the Location, Location, Location A-Z.  Lauralynn talks to Kirsty about her expat son who has returned to his home country for a gap year before University and the challenges he is facing, we chat to Karen who has just completed 5 and a half years in Arusha and Misha and Julia leave us lovely listener messages. Books, Movies, Telly, Podcasts and Food is dominated by our discussion of the powerful Five Women podcast from This American Life.

Books, Movies, Telly, Podcasts and Food

This week’s discussion was dominated by the episode of The American Life titled Five Women

Hardly any time to discuss anything else but we quickly touched on

Kirsty

Reading – I Am Malala

Kirsty also mentioned a New York Times article, After 264 Haircuts, A Marriage Ends

Nikki

Telly – The End of the F***ing World

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This week we hear from two expat women who’ve dealt with travelling partners and keeping the family together while apart. Zoe talks about her own special FIFO arrangement and Christine shares her thoughts on having her husband ‘grounded’ for the first time in their married life, five children later. Kirsty has the ‘first’ budget discussion with her husband G, tune in to hear how that went.

Books, Movies, Telly, Podcasts and Food

Kirsty

Telly – The Larrikin and the Leader, The Americans, Australian Story – Here Come The Brides

Movies – New York Times top movies of 2017, Table 19

Nikki

Watching – Dark, Seven Seconds

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Oh and here’s the link to the discussion on where you’d go and what you miss most 

 

Can you believe it, we’re actually back on the air. Summer was long and hot for Kirsty, with a new house and splitting her kids between countries but now she’s back on the ground in Qatar. Nikki went to Bali for a couple of weeks and for now  Hamburg is turning on the sunshine in a surprising February. The break gave us some time to re-think the podcast format and we explain it all to you in this episode so listen on.

From Kirsty’s post in the Two Fat Expat Facebook group

I’ve been away for over 10 weeks from my Doha expat life and it’s the weirdest feeling settling back in the home base. Nikki and I are due to record the podcast tomorrow (really truly this time) but I’ve of course left my microphone and headset in Australia. It’s the small things that throw you when you get back, the temperature is different – what do I wear here? What’s my pin number again? How do I start this car? How do I fill this coffee machine. Anyone else feel this way after a long time away?

Books, Movies, Telly, Podcasts and Food

Kirsty

Food – The Community Cookbook – Chargrilled broccoli and chick pea salad

Podcasts – Conversations with Richard Fidler – Reinventing Susan: a study of survival

Telly – The Good Place, Everything Sucks, The Crown Season 2

Movies – Victoria and Abdul, Battle of The Sexes

Books – I am Malala

Nikki

Podcasts – Global Pillage

Watching – The Sinner, Imposters

Reading – The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

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