Alterity

I am from England but have spent most of my adult life abroad in countries as culturally diverse as Italy, Scotland and now Indonesia. You could say I am an expat, but I’m not one of those expats – there is no dilapidated farmhouse to restore or bar to manage. I have, however, chatted to a king in East Timor, driven a Ferrari in Ancona (if only for half an hour) and drunk snake blood with remarkable “rejuvenating properties” in the North Sumatran city of Medan. What more from life could you want than that? Well…