<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796241996814583398</id><updated>2011-07-01T09:03:12.994Z</updated><title type='text'>The Expatriotic Expatriate</title><subtitle type='html'>I've lived in the UK for 11 years now and it's still a totally foreign country. The trouble is, now so is the motherland. I take my role of Stranger in a Strange Land seriously, and yet I am sick to the back teeth of people gawping at the fact that I left the Golden State under my own steam. I have blended into my new life with few seams showing but sometimes it feels like the stitches are just about to burst...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bit-of-a-mouthful.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1796241996814583398/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bit-of-a-mouthful.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>AmyTree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12850209738701778780</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gTTEHhiRyqg/StryloYJwyI/AAAAAAAAAjM/ppRfQ74WzS0/S220/DSC00093.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>0</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage></feed>
