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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.9.1 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:59:42 GMT--><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"><rss:channel rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/"><rss:title>A Desk In The Sun</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/</rss:link><rss:description>A Guide to Living and Working Abroad</rss:description><dc:language>en-GB</dc:language><dc:date>2010-02-09T06:59:42Z</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace Site Server v5.9.1 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</admin:generatorAgent><rss:items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/5/25/from-a-laptop-in-kenya-comes-the-meaning-of-life.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/4/27/how-to-check-out-your-virtual-employer.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/3/30/setting-up-business-in-japan-can-be-an-uphill-struggle.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/2/23/before-you-get-any-bright-ideas-a-quiz-for-wannabee-expats.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/1/26/confessions-of-an-accidental-uk-landlord-and-property-speculator.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/12/5/ill-be-working-from-rome-today.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/12/4/trapped-in-telefonica-broadband-limbo.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/10/27/dont-tell-the-holidaymakers-but-this-stress-free-existence-can-be-a-real-drag.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/10/3/an-introduction-to-google-adsense.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/10/1/the-economics-of-ibiza-clubbing.html"/></rdf:Seq></rss:items></rss:channel><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/5/25/from-a-laptop-in-kenya-comes-the-meaning-of-life.html"><rss:title>From a laptop in Kenya comes the meaning of life</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/5/25/from-a-laptop-in-kenya-comes-the-meaning-of-life.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Nick Clayton</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-05-25T13:35:14Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Despite the much-vaunted move towards mobile working it&#8217;s hard to find &#8220;martini jobs&#8221;, the sort you can do any time, anywhere. Then you could hit the road with a backpack, safe in the knowledge you could earn enough in a few hours to keep you going when needed.

Well, I&#8217;ve just been speaking to Ben Bradley who has been doing exactly that. And it&#8217;s all on the basis of knowing, or knowing where to find out: Who is the only footballer to have scored a hat-trick in all four divisions? Who is Top Gear&#8217;s &#8220;The Stig&#8221;? And, simply: What is the meaning of life? Read on and all will be revealed.

[This is from the last issue of The Guardian&#8217;s Business Sense supplement. There was not sufficient advertising revenue to make it viable. I hope to find another another home for &#8220;A Desk In The Sun&#8221; either in The Guardian or another publication.NC.]
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/4/27/how-to-check-out-your-virtual-employer.html"><rss:title>How to check out your virtual employer</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/4/27/how-to-check-out-your-virtual-employer.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Nick Clayton</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-04-27T09:58:09Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Communications technology has liberated me. I live in Ibiza while working mainly as if I was still in the UK. Anybody contacting me by phone, fax, email, mobile or even letter could be mistaken for believing I&#8217;d never left Edinburgh. This is a matter of convenience in that many people are still reluctant to make an international phone call.

But there is a potential downside. With the virtual employee has come the virtual employer. There&#8217;s no bricks-and-mortar office, just an email address and phone number. It means you have to be prepared to do your own due diligence.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/3/30/setting-up-business-in-japan-can-be-an-uphill-struggle.html"><rss:title>Setting up business in Japan can be an uphill struggle</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/3/30/setting-up-business-in-japan-can-be-an-uphill-struggle.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Nick Clayton</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-03-30T09:47:49Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Setting up a business in the UK is difficult enough. Move abroad, adding the extra challenges of language, culture and bureaucracy to the mix, and it&#8217;s enough to make most people go running to the nearest employer.

Of course, some places are tougher than others.

Japan would certainly be one of the last stable, advanced capitalist economies where I&#8217;d try to start a business. But it seems there&#8217;s nowhere in the world that doesn&#8217;t have some British entrepreneur toiling away.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/2/23/before-you-get-any-bright-ideas-a-quiz-for-wannabee-expats.html"><rss:title>Before you get any bright ideas... A quiz for wannabee expats</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/2/23/before-you-get-any-bright-ideas-a-quiz-for-wannabee-expats.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Nick Clayton</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-02-23T10:51:41Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Since moving to Ibiza, I keep coming across the collateral damage from reality TV; people who have watched a few living-in-the-sun programmes and decided life can&#8217;t be worse than it is in Britain. Oh yes it can.

Some people are just not cut out socially, professionally or economically for existence abroad. Here are 10 questions any would-be expatriate should ask themselves before burning their British bridges in pursuit of a life in the sun.

This column is based on the full-length quiz for expats on the &#8220;A Desk in the Sun&#8221; website.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/1/26/confessions-of-an-accidental-uk-landlord-and-property-speculator.html"><rss:title>Confessions of an accidental UK landlord and property speculator</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2007/1/26/confessions-of-an-accidental-uk-landlord-and-property-speculator.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Nick Clayton</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-01-26T12:35:16Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Moving abroad can turn expats into accidental landlords and property speculators. If you own your home, what do you do with it if you leave the country? Hanging on to our flat in Edinburgh was a mixture of maths, cowardice and indecision. Only time will tell if it was the right thing to do.

When Barbara and I moved to Ibiza we hadn&#8217;t planned on a long stay. Letting our UK home was part of the deal. The rent was supposed to cover our Spanish accommodation costs -which it did. Almost.

Everything became more permanent when we decided to buy a place in the sun. The obvious thing to do was sell up in Edinburgh, but that meant stepping permanently off the UK property ladder. Instead we took out the biggest interest-only mortgage we could and put the cash towards our Ibiza house.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/12/5/ill-be-working-from-rome-today.html"><rss:title>'I'll be working from Rome today'</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/12/5/ill-be-working-from-rome-today.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Nick Clayton</dc:creator><dc:date>2006-12-05T17:20:26Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[What possessed a single mother to take her young child to a country where she knows nobody and she doesn&#8217;t speak the language? Nick Clayton uncovers the realities of swapping one European city for another

It&#8217;s easy to get the feeling that every emigrant from Britain is heading for nature&#8217;s wide open spaces. Has there ever been one of those interminable fly-on-the-wall television documentaries that has featured a family, couple or singleton moving to a big, dirty city?
In every programme I&#8217;ve seen, and I&#8217;ve seen too many, the escapees have headed for a foreign holiday coast or some rural idyll filled with crumbling property, picturesque peasants and unspoilt scenery. (You can switch those adjectives around into any order to get the picture. Peter Mayle has a lot to answer for.)
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/12/4/trapped-in-telefonica-broadband-limbo.html"><rss:title>Trapped in Telefonica broadband limbo</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/12/4/trapped-in-telefonica-broadband-limbo.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Nick Clayton</dc:creator><dc:date>2006-12-04T17:47:00Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Normally I post my “A Desk In The Sun” column on the website/blog as close as possible to the day it appears in print and on The Guardian’s website. The reason it’s taken ten days is the result of what feels as if it’s been a conspiracy between Telefonica and Jazztel to make my working life impossible.  I have never felt so powerless in the face of bureaucracy.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/10/27/dont-tell-the-holidaymakers-but-this-stress-free-existence-can-be-a-real-drag.html"><rss:title>Don't tell the holidaymakers, but this stress-free existence can be a real drag</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/10/27/dont-tell-the-holidaymakers-but-this-stress-free-existence-can-be-a-real-drag.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Nick Clayton</dc:creator><dc:date>2006-10-27T09:24:25Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[What the envious visitors didn't know about was the underlying stress of quitting the rat race. It's not something Ibiza residents talk about with strangers. After all, the envy of holidaymakers is part of the pleasure of living here. Around our table that evening were, among others, a former orthopaedic surgeon who'd spent the day digging a latrine, a woman who was a senior manager of one of Britain's largest charities and was now relaxing after spending 11 hours cleaning other peoples' villas, and a highly-qualified aeronautical engineer currently working as a labourer on a building site.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/10/3/an-introduction-to-google-adsense.html"><rss:title>An Introduction to Google AdSense</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/10/3/an-introduction-to-google-adsense.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Nick Clayton</dc:creator><dc:date>2006-10-03T17:31:32Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Unless you are working for somebody else, there’s never been an easy way to make money from your own blog or website. That’s until Google’s AdSense came along.

It’s simple to use. All you have to do is cut and paste some code into the HTML on your website or blog, then wait for the money to roll in.

Well of course it’s not quite as easy as that. Where the ads are placed on the page; what subject your blog focuses on and how many visitors you receive are all important factors when it comes to earning cash from AdSense clicks.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/10/1/the-economics-of-ibiza-clubbing.html"><rss:title>The economics of Ibiza clubbing</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/10/1/the-economics-of-ibiza-clubbing.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Nick Clayton</dc:creator><dc:date>2006-10-01T18:24:21Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[So where does the money come from and where does it go? In this month’s “A Desk In The Sun” column for The Guardian I look at the way clubs in Ibiza are run from a business perspective. Well, I look to a limited degree because the whole process is far from transparent.]]></content:encoded></rss:item></rdf:RDF>