22 WHERE TO LIVE?By the end of their first month in Spain, they were all feeling a lot less homesick and a lot more at home. Craig had always moved around, and had always dreaded the thought of moving on more than the reality when it came down to it, but Lek and Soom had never lived outside Thailand before and had closer, stronger ties with friends and family than he had ever had. It was hard to tell with Shell, but as with the sudden disappearance of her father, the hurried separation from everyone she knew bar three seemed to have little effect on her. She just soldiered on and took it all in her stride with her typically smiling, giggling face.
Soom often seemed glad to be away from Thailand, but it was the constant threat from her in-laws that she was happy to escape in reality. There
