The Frying Pan

Louis wishes all his fellow Scots a happy St. Andrews Day and recognizes some casual racism while Rowan checks his privilege and tries to figure out how to talk to people. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%2314.mp3

The Frying Pan returns but with only one expat. While Louis remains in Spain despite some fruit-centric vandalism, Rowan has returned to the US and some confusing cultural changes. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%2313+Final.mp3

This week on The Frying Pan, Rowan describes the various incarnations of sweat he has experienced in Bali while Louis happily reports that it is cooling off nicely in Spain. Yup, it’s a conversation about the weather. How very British. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%2312+final.mp3

After some rather significant techincal difficulties (Sorry!), we bring to you Louis trying to find a chica to help with his Spanish, a trip to Malaga for some tragic rugby, and Rowan’s visa nightmare. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%2311+.mp3

Louis’s Spanish has plateaued so he’s looking for a lovely chica to help him out. He also joins the real expat crowd in Malaga to see some tragic rugby and Rowan’s visa is still nowhere to be seen. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%2311.mp3

This week on The Frying Pan Podcast, Louis asks the questions and Rowan gives the lowdown on the Indonesian language and dog street gangs. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/10+final.mp3

Louis and Rowan get deep about why they are where they are and why they are doing what they are doing. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%239.mp3

Rowan and Louis state the obvious: Hangovers are the worst. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/Frying+Pan+8.mp3

The Frying Pan is back after a little break to wrap up our discussion on food. This week Rowan and Louis dive into Indonesian cuisine, Rowan talks about his 25 hours on a bus and Louis gets some dates. The fruit kind. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%237.2+.mp3

We’re in decimals, folks. Join Rowan and Louis in part uno of dos as The Frying Pan dives into food of the Spanish variety; snails, mayonnaise and everything in between. Also, warning: Louis’s Expat Experience this week is graphic and may remove all hunger you built up listening to the previous twenty minutes. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%237.1+FINAL.mp3

Sport has always been a favorite topic for Louis and Rowan, so this week they get into the weeds on the sporting cultures of their locales. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%236+Final.mp3 Here are Rowan’s articles on Indonesian football: Soccer Madness in Indonesia: Can the nation’s top league finally get underway? Protests, Politics, and Corruption: The fight to control Indonesian soccer

Join Rowan and Louis this week as they take a ride on their locales’ most popular forms of transportation. For Rowan that’s a motorbike and for Louis it seems to be a donkey cart. You can also check out Rowan’s post on Jakarta’s horrendous traffic here. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan.+Final+take+5.mp3

Rowan and Louis dive into the byzantine and busted bureacracies of Indonesia and Spain. It turns out joking about bureaucracy is a lot more entertaining than the actual thing. Rowan also wrote a piece a while back on the remnants of Dutch colonial bureaucracy in Indonesia. You can check it out here. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%234+FINAL.mp3

Rowan and Louis get together to discuss the age old nectar of the gods (booze) in their respective lands. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%233.mp3

In The Frying Pan #2, Louis and Rowan dive into a few holidays and festivals held in their respective locales, their meanings, traditions, and the amount of alcohol involved (or lack thereof). https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/Frying+Pan+%232+Final.m4a

Meet Louis and Rowan (again), formerly of The Volterra Podcast, who have restarted and revamped their project with a focus on their lives as expatriates in hot countries. In this, the inaugural Frying Pan, find out where the podcast’s name comes from, where Louis and Rowan are living and why they are there. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thefryingpan/The+Frying+Pan+%231.mp3