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The eXpat Files Ep. 13 - The Speed of Life (Patreon)

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2025-11-12 14:52:26
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The eXpat Files is a new series of podcast episodes that chronicle David and @joyofnapping's conversations as they consider how to spend time in another country.

In this episode, David and @joy discuss:

Follow-up on The Thousand Year Journey

Stuff We Wish We Had Brought and Stuff We Wish We Hadn't

Using Amazon Spain in Portugal

Whether We Want to Give Up

David's Recent Trip to London

The People We've Met So Far

Watching Predator: Badlands with Portuguese Subtitles

PATRONS: You can get this audio in your podcast app by going to patreon.com/davechen, going to the "My Membership" section, and copying and pasting the RSS link to your podcast app.

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Mathew

It's so nice to hear these updates from you two now that you are actually there! I've been enjoying the vlog updates, but this is my favorite format to hear from you. Despite how tired you must be, there seems to be renewed levity in your voices. I hope the bumps of settling in are smoothed out soon and you're able to find continued peace and joy in your new journey!

Mads Olsen

I'm feeling like such a tryhard writing this, but I actually took some notes while listening. I hope it helps! We have NeilMed in Denmark, so it can easily be bought within the EU to avoid import fees and whatnot. Maybe a DK seller is not the cheapest in terms of shipping costs, but that's one data point for you. And just a note, an isotonic saline solution is just 0.9% salt in water (nothing with pH, although I know the NeilMed packs contain baking soda to adjust pH for less irritation), so pretty easy to mix yourself! You did mention bringing a kitchen scale! Same with American cast iron, you can buy Lodge pans in Denmark, so I would be surprised if that is the only place to get it. Check out Skeppshult, which is Swedish cast iron - pretty good, if it's not outrageously priced in Portugal. English being my second language, no, I wouldn't be offended if you complimented my English, but I would find it a bit.. Odd maybe? Probably a cultural thing, but I and most people I know use English so much it's just second nature at this point. Lastly, just wanted to say that I am 100% Team Joy in the peanut butter debate - natural oily peanut butter is the best, although it doesn't sound that inviting when presented like that...

Joy o Napping

I found the Neil Med danish site but Portugal is not on the list of countries they would ship to when I tried to order :/

Mads Olsen

Try webapoteket.dk (I have no affiliation). I put in a random address in Porto and that seemed to work! €31 for shipping though.

Chris Cameron

On the language compliments topic, one way I tend to handle that situation is instead of simply complementing someone’s English, make it relative to your skills and say something like “your English is way better than my Portuguese”. Also, for language learning, since most people learn language as a baby, as as the father of a young Portuguese speaking child, I’d recommend watching Portuguese children’s programming (e.g., Panda e Os Caricas on YouTube) or pick up books for toddlers at the library and use that more simplified version of the language to learn (instead of trying to interpret CNN headlines). Reading books to my kid in another language (translating to English) is one of the ways my own language skills have grown the most. Also you can probably find American shows like Friends airing on TV there with Portuguese subtitles, which will help.

Joe Darcy

I've found taking melatonin at night on the first day or two of a west coast of US to Europe trip vastly cuts down on jet lag. Melatonin is OTC in the US; web searches indicates higher doses are by prescription in the EU. HTH

Alexander Radovic

Really enjoying listening to these, as a brit who moved to America it's quite fascinating to see the America to Europe experience play out like this.

Alexander Radovic

On language compliments: I just think you just need to be very careful about the context. Particularly often I've heard horror stories from friends where their appearance (or name as you discussed) will mark them as an outsider even in the country they were literally born in or spent most of your adult life in. It can then be incredibly alienating to be told how great your English/French/Spanish/German is as you immediately feel like you'll always be an outsider. But if you know they only started learning recently (let's say less than five years), I'm sure it will be taken incredibly well. p.s. as a Brit with a very Serbian name I definitely experienced a lot of named related racism as a kid, it's a very real thing across Europe event without government mandated names as the countries aren't the melting pot of America.