Food for thought – finding the novelty in daily life
Supermarket shopping is rarely fun. In all honesty, I dread schlepping to and from the grocery store, hands white and red where the cardboard handles are cutting into my skin. Worse, when it rains, the...
View ArticleHow not to be a house guest
As expats who live in a sunny, holiday destination, Dubai residents tend to get a lot of visitors. And some of them just “get it”, don’t they? They know how to be guests. They take a taxi from the...
View ArticleExpat dilemma: How much do you do for uninvited houseguests?
As we head towards the peak holiday season in Dubai – those perfect days of early summer when it’s hot enough to laze by a chilled pool but not yet too humid – I know there’ll be many expats here...
View ArticleExpats come home to roost after long summer holiday
This is always a curious time of the year. As shoals of holidaymakers leave the island to resume their busy lives elsewhere, we expats offer up a sigh of relief because for us too it heralds the...
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