Jessica Lee
@jessofarabia.bsky.social
Travel writer | Guidebook Author | Obsessed by deserts, mountains & finding the perfect hummus | Ex-Lonely Planet Türkiye & Egypt author | Lives in a cave | Posts mainly about: MENA, travel, books I like, & my stupid cats | Working on a novel.
Me too. I was incredibly annoyed at myself because I tried twice and simply got annoyed both times so I still haven't finished it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Me too. I was incredibly annoyed at myself because I tried twice and simply got annoyed both times so I still haven't finished it.
I mean, there are strange cultural differences that forever baffled me but enthusiasm-wise, Americans couldn't be beaten.
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I mean, there are strange cultural differences that forever baffled me but enthusiasm-wise, Americans couldn't be beaten.
Also, the worst were always Australian.
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Also, the worst were always Australian.
LOL. I'm unfortunately too busy to tell the story of the time the Home Office raided the place I was working & tried to cart me off as an illegal just because it took everyone a while to find the p/copy of my passport.
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
LOL. I'm unfortunately too busy to tell the story of the time the Home Office raided the place I was working & tried to cart me off as an illegal just because it took everyone a while to find the p/copy of my passport.
Sunjeev Suhata's 'The Year of the Runaways' is an amazing piece of old fashioned saga-style storytelling about contemporary migration; totally different, but also loved Ayşegül Savas' 'The Anthropologists'; & for a pageturner, Aisling Rawle's 'The Compound' is a knockout.
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Sunjeev Suhata's 'The Year of the Runaways' is an amazing piece of old fashioned saga-style storytelling about contemporary migration; totally different, but also loved Ayşegül Savas' 'The Anthropologists'; & for a pageturner, Aisling Rawle's 'The Compound' is a knockout.