In this episode, the second episode of That Could Have Gone Better, Andrew talks to Jesper Sandberg, Sandra Olivera and Mackenzie Martin. Andrew is an Irishman living in The Netherlands; Jesper is Danish, but he lives in England; Sandra is Mexican but lives in Irelnad; and Mackenzie is an American living in France. As well as sharing a few embarrassing stories, we talk about nationalism, living abroad, finding a new home and coming to terms with being away from family. It's a form of group therapy!

Beautiful cameo at the start of the episode from Dan Peachy, who will hopefully be appearing in a later episode of TCHG Better!

Carol Hickson joins Andrew on this podcast again to shed some much needed sensibility to proceedings and share her own stories from her time living and teaching in the UK and France. There are times when Carol truly embodies the principle “ignorance is bliss”, as highlighted by her potato story.

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The rather provocative title of the episode will make sense if you worked in O’Shea’s Irish Pub in Nijmegen in the mid-2000’s or if you listen to the podcast! 😊 .