About
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I’m a transplanted Canadian who has been living, working, and taking photographs in Asia since late 2000. Prior to beginning my one year expat adventure (now into year 9) I kept busy in corporate Canada. Back then my travel was primarily for business in Atlantic Canada and Quebec. I represented Butterworths Canada ( a division of Reed-Elsevier), CCH Canadian Limited (a division of Walter Klewer), and American Express.
When I hung up my corporate high heels in 2000 it was supposed to be for a year. The plan was to return, but of course that hasn’t happened. I’ve discovered that I enjoy my expat working and traveling lifestyle. There are no plans to change that anytime soon.
To travel I need time and money. I earned a Masters degree, and now I teach at the university level. This gives me both the time and some of the money that I need to travel several times a year. In addition to my teaching I am a freelance writer. I have co-authored several TOEFL testing textbooks with Compass Publishing. Recently, I completed a freelance “ghost writing” project with PGC Edutainment based in Seoul. I am also available for freelance travel writing assignments.
My goal with this website is to provide readers with a first hand account of my travel experiences. This will include the good, the bad, and the fantastic!
Unless otherwise noted all of the articles here are written by me. The content is true and accurate to the best of my ability. All of the photographs were taken by me with one of my trusty Nikon cameras.
Please feel free to comment. You may not always agree with what I have to say. If we all agreed with each other all of the time, it would be a boring world! Remember, keep your comments polite and no foul language.
I am currently based in Daejeon, South Korea.
Enjoy the adventure!
Nancie (Ladyexpat)
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Nancie,
Thanks for your comment on our blog! I always have to ask everyone – if you know of any amazing, independently owned hotels out there for budget-minded travelers (rooms under, and often way under, US$150), please consider nominating them at darn good digs. With your travels in South Korea and beyond, I figure you might have stayed at some cool places. The nomination form is at http://www.darngooddigs.com/nominationform.html.
Thanks,
Michael
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Nancie,
Thanks for your comment on our blog! I always have to ask everyone – if you know of any amazing, independently owned hotels out there for budget-minded travelers (rooms under, and often way under, US$150), please consider nominating them at darn good digs. With your travels in South Korea and beyond, I figure you might have stayed at some cool places. The nomination form is at http://www.darngooddigs.com/nominationform.html.
Thanks,
Michael
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Hi Michael,
Thank you for stopping by. I’ve stayed in a few nice places over the years at under 150.00……….way under:) I’ll be in touch.
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Hi Michael,
Thank you for stopping by. I’ve stayed in a few nice places over the years at under 150.00……….way under:) I’ll be in touch.
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I did a significant of work for PGC Edutainment and they never paid me – even after repeated, repeated contact, e-mails and promises. Pretty disappointing. Hope that didn’t happen to you as well…
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I did a significant of work for PGC Edutainment and they never paid me – even after repeated, repeated contact, e-mails and promises. Pretty disappointing. Hope that didn’t happen to you as well…
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Hi Nancy,
Great website! Glad to see it. I stop by Twitter every once in awhile and saw your tweet.
I’ve used a lot of your wonderful photos for Gadling’s Photo of the Day. Now I’m blogging for UpTake.com as one of the lodging travel bloggers.
I know what you mean about living overseas. Good that you’ve figured out how to make it work for you. Your love of living in Korea has shown through in your work.
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Hi Nancy,
Great website! Glad to see it. I stop by Twitter every once in awhile and saw your tweet.
I’ve used a lot of your wonderful photos for Gadling’s Photo of the Day. Now I’m blogging for UpTake.com as one of the lodging travel bloggers.
I know what you mean about living overseas. Good that you’ve figured out how to make it work for you. Your love of living in Korea has shown through in your work.
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Thank you Jamie! Nice to see you here. Drop by anytime.
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Thank you Jamie! Nice to see you here. Drop by anytime.
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Hi Nancie,
I was taking a look over your blog and I really enjoyed reading your travel posts! I wanted to let you know about a cool new blog program UpTake has recently launched called “Travel Gems” that features blog content from across the web on our site. It brings great blog content to a wider audience and helps bloggers like yourself increase traffic to their own blogs. I’d love to speak to you more about how this program works and see if you are interested in participating.
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you!
Best,
Brittany (bchandler@uptake dot com)
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Hi! I would like to swap links with your site. My blog is http://www.travelocafe.com. I've already added you under my “Links” section on my page. Thank you!
I'm also looking for guest bloggers. Please let me know if you'd be interested in being featured on Travelocafe.
Regards, Laura
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Hi Laura, Thank you for linking to my blog. I will also add you to my blog roll. I'm traveling right now in China. Internet access is dodgy. I will be in touch about doing a guest blog when I have better Internet access.
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Hi Nancie,
Greetings from Toronto! My name's Adrian Ma, and I'm an associate producer with CBC News.ca. We're planning to run some articles about work culture and I'm interested in speaking to people who have left their office jobs behind in search of adventure. Is there an email address I can contact you at?
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Hi Adrian!
You can reach me at nanciemckinnon@gmail.com.
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I really like your blog, Nancie. We spent just three days in Seoul a couple of decades back, when we were in Japan, where I taught in the same area as you do. I’d love to go back to both countries in the future, and see all the changes that would have taken place.
All the best from Santiago,
Andrew.
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Thank you Andrew! I’ve been in Korea almost ten years and the changes during that time have been amazing. I love Japan, but as you know, so expensive that it’s difficult to go there often.
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Andrew Graeme Gould
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November 26th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Hi again, Nancie. I guess I would hardly recognise it from twenty years back, then! The more I think about it, the more I want to go.
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I’m glad to have discovered your blog through our LinkedIn Group, Bloggers Helping Bloggers. I’ll be back!
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LadyE, the link to your facebook page on the top left is broken.
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