Intro Track
At 2:52 - Greetings Xenophiles!
Back to my happy place after a few weeks off - We’ll discover later why I started with Fashion by David Bowie.
On this day in 762 the city of Baghdad was founded. Which makes me wonder - how exactly do you found a city?
In 1869 the world’s first oil tanker left the US for Europe, carrying 7,000 barrels of oil. So long ago…
On this very day 60 years ago, in 1966, England won the football world cup final at Wembley, beating Germany 4-2.
In 2003, today, the very last old style VW Beetle came off the production line in Mexico.
Happy Birthday Arnold Schwarzenegger - 79 today.
And to my good friend Paul Anderson, currently enjoying the greek island of Aegina.
Lucie & Giles Portman
We start with a short recap (edited segment) of Giles’s first show – 4 minutes.
1. Throwback
Then we introduce the family and spend a few minutes discussing Lucie’s back-story.
Topics include:
Where born (and optionally, when)?
How was growing up? Urban / Rural / Chaotic / Relaxed?
Family / Siblings?
School? Did you enjoy it? Were you good at it? What did you specialize in?
Outside of school? How did you spend your evenings / weekends / holidays?
What was specific / unusual about your childhood?
Hobbies and dreams? Did you dream to become a doctor / Lawyer / Architect / Train Driver / Astronaut?
What’s the first thing a visitor should see or do when they visit your home town?
19:19 - Giles’s choice
2. Becoming a Power Couple
I would like to talk about how you and Giles met, what you do together as the genuine power-couple that you are, and what it means to you to be ‘the ambassador’s wife’, introduce the children and talk about how it is raising 2 children when you know you’ll be moving around the world in 3 or 4 year chunks.
Whatever else you want to talk about.
19:34 - Emma’s choice
3. Diplomacy in Fashion
Here we talk about Diplomacy in Fashion:
- What it is
- How it started
- What’s the aim of it
- News, events, updates, promote promote promote…
19:49 - Lucie’s choice
Next Chapter
Going on holiday tomorrow.
(over the intro) It’s a busy weekend. On Saturday you have a choice.
In Zadar there will be a show with Hano Hoffer, Raul Kusak and Luis King.
In Backyard there will be a show with Maria Raducanu and Calin Grigoriu.
You really should attend one or both of these.
This has been Expat Life