More from ‘A House Abroad,’ Jan Morris

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 12.05.02 | 4:02 PM ET

We found another story online from Lonely Planet’s new book “A House Abroad,” this one by Jan Morris. It turns out she finds the rewards of the expatriate life quite temporary.

“I know well ... the exquisite thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s country, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don’t seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping ... It is seldom a permanent pleasure.”

The piece appears in the November issue of The Atlantic.