An immigration official wearing a turban. Another airport official doing something .. airporty, who it was obvious to me that English was not his natural born language. Hello home.

“Who let the chavs out?” I txt’d to my mate Janet (Who then gave away my ’secret’ trip in her facebook status update for all to [...]

There’s a new theme park in town! Although actually when I say ‘in town’, I mean ‘a two hour drive north from Charleston up to Myrtle Beach’.
Myrtle Beach is a kitschy town of South Carolina (Brits: Think Margate with a load of Chavs, and you’re kinda there), but something quite exciting and new that [...]

How us Brits learn about all-things-America before coming here is of course from the movies.
The most memorable movie moments from films I saw before moving here are as follows:
In Castaway (A fairly good film), Tom Hanks is at a crossroads right at the end, in a middle-of-nowhere scene, sand and dust all around, and I’m [...]

Since the turn of the year, I’ve been taking comedy improv classes at Theatre 99 here in Charleston. The classes are in three stages, and back at the beginning of March we had our ‘Level 1′ recital.

Last night - eight weeks more of tutoring later, the Level 2 recital was upon us. So [...]

It shouldn’t really go unnoticed that over the weekend on May 2nd, I passed the magic two year mark here in the US of A.
It feels like a lot longer.