It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

~ Sarah Turnbull

Sarah Turnbull Expatriate Travel

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)

~ Sarah Turnbull

Sarah Turnbull Building City Lime Loo Public Toilet Trail Trees Ufo

You'd think the sight of beautiful Place Vendôme would lift my spirits but oddly the arc of jewellery - so obviously beyond the means of a jobless person like me - only depresses me more. I plod on feeling confused, guilty even, that I should feel unhappy in a place that looks like paradise.

~ Sarah Turnbull

Sarah Turnbull Expatriot France Paris