Arabian Musings

Abu Dhabi vs Dubai: What People Think vs The Truth

June 27, 2018 June 27, 2018

I can’t pinpoint when it started. Of course everything changed when my son was born, and like every new mother I found myself exhausted…

May 24, 2017 May 24, 2017

So here we are again, it’s been a while! I wrote before I went to Sri Lanka about my own struggle with social media…

December 7, 2016 June 12, 2017

Whilst I was excited to go on holiday recently, I’ll admit that I was a bit apprehensive about going back to Australia. After having…

November 9, 2016 October 27, 2016

On this very day 10 years ago, after having packed up my life, sold some of my things, sent even more to the charity…

September 28, 2016 December 30, 2016

It seems like life is passing me by lately, things on the to do list never seem to get crossed off and the days…

September 7, 2016 February 14, 2017

I don’t often write about being a mother. But this week, on the day my baby started nursery for the first time I felt…

August 10, 2016 July 2, 2017

So I’ve been pretty quiet since I got back from my trip to the UK, but that doesn’t mean that nothing has been going…

April 13, 2016 April 26, 2017

What everyone wants to know – here it is – the truth about living in the UAE:

April 6, 2016 April 4, 2016

I talked in my first ever blog post about how I’d learned about far off places that ignited my desire to travel, but that…

March 30, 2016 July 2, 2017

I hear a lot of things from people who don’t live in Abu Dhabi about what people think about the city, and more often…

February 10, 2016 February 10, 2016

Valentine’s Day – love it or loathe it, is almost here again so for anyone still looking for a place to take that someone…

February 3, 2016 November 13, 2017

I don’t have a dog, and everyone I’ve asked about ‘Dog Friendly Abu Dhabi’ has simply laughed as a first response… Not an especially…