The whole GFC (or Global Financial Crisis for those lucky people not in the know), has reverberated through the media with as many points of view as climate change. A few months after we arrived we heard plenty of stories about Dubai being in a whole lot of trouble. We hoped it wasn’t on account […]
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What a weekend
My family and I have had another hectic weekend. Tecom On Thursday – the equivalent of Australia’s Friday – we managed to get a viewing of our permanent accommodation at Al Barsha. Getting into there is not the finest introduction at the moment as due to the rain the ground’s mostly muddy, and there are […]
Safa Park markets
We’re in the market for a few things for Lewis rather than wait to get our stuff couriered over. So we spent yesterday at Safa Park with friends who told us about the markets they have there once a month. I’ve been pricing most items at Mother Care – a UK based chain. The prices […]
Wow, what workers
I wish I had earlier taken a picture of the scene across the road. It was a vacant lot, with a base of sand – like anywhere in Dubai where there’s nothing built, or planted and given a whole lot of water. When the shops are open, it doubled as a car park. And then […]