Two weeks back at work, and I’m in danger of forgetting my two weeks holiday in Australia. I arrived in Launceston for a change, as Elle and boys were visiting an ill family member. The next day was already arranged for the boys and I to go zipline-ing at Treetops in Hollybank forest. It was a […]
Tag: holidays
Staying in Emirates Park Zoo – 5-7 April 2017
We had anything but a proper vacation for this Spring Break. Lewis had chicken pox for the first week. Then on the weekend, Owen was hospitalised with pneumonia. My work was also busy, so with just a few days remaining of the boy’s holiday, we opted for a Staycation. We decided to stay at Emirates […]
Umm Al Quwain Marine Club “Camping” – 11-13 April 2014
Elle and the boys had two weeks holiday for Easter. So last weekend we headed up to UAQ Marine Club to go “camping” with some friends for a couple of nights. I realised early on we're pretty hopeless campers, when Lewis reported that our chalet had only one bathroom. #kidlulz — Ryan B (@rbrink77) April 14, 2014 […]
Pet Holidays
Ramadan has been and gone for another year. It went relatively quickly for me. My family returned home for four weeks – as the great majority of expats tend to do, to avoid Dubai’s summer assault. It was a smart move, the temperature was quite intense. I heard that Dubai had one day over the […]
Tassie winter roadtrip
The weather wasn’t great for the start of our family campervan trip down the East coast, to the South of Tasmania. We’ve been to Tas plenty of times, yet the kids have never seen these areas. Our first stop for the kids to stretch their legs was Avoca – home to perhaps the worlds smallest […]
R.I.P. HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
This evening I learned that His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has been confirmed dead, regrettably too early at the young age of 42. For the uninitiated, Bin (or occasionally “Ibn”) means son of – so from his name alone you can tell he was the son of the founding father of the UAE, the […]
An Australian holiday – Oct 2009
After eight months living abroad we finally took our first holiday. On October 17 We headed home to Australia for four full weeks. Work had been quite hectic leading up to this. My manager is still unsure how I managed to get her approval for this amount of leave. It was quite simple really, quietly […]