Writer, EFL teacher, trainer, and translator, I was born in Tanzania, have lived in a dozen countries over three continents, and describe myself as an ‘expatriate sin patria’. Wherever I go I make it my business to learn the language, get to know the local people and customs, and discover the country’s remotest corners. I became interested in writing in mid-2006, did a short Open University creative writing course and a Writers’ Bureau course, and began getting articles published in 2007.

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In Montevideo, tonight is 'La Noche de las Luces' - The Night of the Lights. When the sun begins to set, which is at around nine o'clock at this time of year, hordes of people flock to the Rambla, in their cars, in specially laid on buses, by bike, jogging, roller-blading, walking, carrying their matés, folding chairs and babies, and trailing small children by the hand.

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