Dave

Recently we were looking at car hire prices and came to an astounding discovery. The rental price varied from day to day but when we asked for a quote to rent for several we were quoted the highest daily rate multiplied by the number of days. If, for example your are renting for thirty days but the period covers a major public holiday you could find the cost increasing by a factor of two or three just because you are covering a single expensive day. Shifting the rental period by two or three

Distracting Niklaus while Neumann has his drum class, I was lost in thought looking for an answer and then it struck me....

Those that have known me for any time will know that I never took on the trappings of the expatriate lifestyle. I avoided management like the plague, never joined clubs or hung out with other foreigners except for the very rare occasion or even rarer friend and I tend to live a local lifestyle.

I am often seen taking my kids to school wearing a sarong and spend my evenings while waiting for my daughter to finish tuition drinking "Teh C kosong" and eating thosai in the local mamak restaurant.