There are 120,000 British people living in New York. On Monday, I joined them (briefly). Why did they leave the potato-gobbling rain-gutter we call home? What differences are there between living there and here? And can you make a handy list of slightly amusing observations about the whole affair?
This week our man in the Big Apple gets stuck in conversation with the most miserable, yet well travelled woman on earth. A bit like Johnny Cash as an old granny...
Our lone Englishman is hunting for the world's best burger. And he's not going to let a loudmouth lobster fiend nor the hardest waitress in Manhattan stop him from finding it.
After getting swindled by the salesman, I nearly died in the back of a New York gym before hitting the emergency stop and being confronted by a naked king of the gym...
I’m in a bar, one of them Tiki cocktail places that are thankfully slowly dying out through lack of popularity. I soon learn why, when I order a beer. They don’t sell beer...
As I waited in City Hall for a wedding license after being warned off of my fiancee by a cab driver because she was wearing paisley, I spotted a ...
A simple trip to the shop for lemons, tomato juice and toilet paper gives our man much more than he bargained for...
Accidentally swapping partners and dodging celebrities as he dotes on a box of thongs is all in a days work for our man in New York.
Our lone Englishman in the Big Apple attends an awkward religious ceremony and unwillingly talks to an ignorant middle aged British man in a lift...
Our lone Englishman in the Big Apple overhears an awkward Mother-Son exchange about sexuality, and fails to aid a peeping tom...
Dismay at being mistaken for Karl Pilkington on four continents and discovering the wonder of Sloppy Joes, mixed em...
Kung fu breakdancers, dodging human faeces and stroking tropical spiders: just another day on the New York subway.....
A rap on the door by a vaguely famous TV star sends my girlfriend into overdrive, while a taste of home sends me wa...
Our lone Englishman goes to watch Thierry Henry's New York Red Bulls, remembers what it was like growing up as a Re...
A trip down South to the white heat of Miami sees our lone Englishman get dressed head-to-toe in Linen, confused for a member of staff and aurall...
I'm settling in to New York life with gusto, but some rude graffiti about uber-celeb Kim Kardashian leaves me flustered, and replacing 'S' with '...
Not only has he got to cope with 'getting to know' his new classmates, but his girlfriend has got a poster of a long-haired rock singer on the ba...
It's official, our Englishman finally gets a proper crack at living the American Dream but still has a lot to learn about his new countrymen's fo...
After failing miserably in his attempts to get a visa our Englishman is on his way back to Reading. But not before being made painfully aware of his baldness and mortally offending a mermaid.
Our Englishman's visa is running out. This time he has to combat supermarkets, racism and the worst child in the wo...
Our Englishman is off to a seminar hoping to nail down that visa, while also embarrassing himself in front of famou...
Still nowhere closer to getting a visa, our Englishman is back with a whole host of problems, namely Satan's taxi d...
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