

From the sun to the snow!
I started writing this on a plane from Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow on Wednesday 17th November...it is now Thursday 2nd December!...
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Dec 9, 20212 min read


Italian holiday
Again - I know...the rest of you are still locked on an island and here we were traipsing around Italy in October with our Covid...
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Dec 8, 20213 min read


It has been awhile!
I know, I disappeared overseas again while the rest of you were/are still locked down! I was refused an exemption 3 times...but I...
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Dec 2, 20211 min read


The highlights...
My favourite bits were all the in-between days that we spent just living life but there were definitely highlights! The mountains and the...
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May 1, 20211 min read


It took 7 days!
So I had thought to make my 14 days of quarantine alcohol free...nope - I just couldn't do it. Thursday I was feeling a little sad, was...
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May 1, 20212 min read


Time to come home...
Packing up after almost 4 months was not an easy thing to do and not just because I had accumulated more stuff and that it was everywhere!...
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Apr 23, 20212 min read


Over the mountains to Fujairah
On our last weekend and to celebrate my birthday - Neville drove us up and over the mountains to the Emirate of Fujairah to spend a...
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Apr 23, 20211 min read


Into the Empty Quarter
Thursday 25th March Neville took us into the desert - it was his birthday gift to himself and happily I just tagged along. We headed out...
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Apr 5, 20213 min read


Sirru Fen Fushi
We are just home from a week in the Maldives. I know, just typing that makes me want to pinch myself all over again! It was as perfect...
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Mar 6, 20213 min read


Precipitation!
On our weekend Neville decided it was time to get a little culture so took us off to an Art Installation that had been recommended to him....
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Feb 24, 20212 min read


Escape from the city...
Last Saturday after restocking the alcohol in Ras Al Khaimah, we drove up the Jebel Jais mountain. It is part of the spectacular, albeit...
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Feb 16, 20211 min read


Everything has bling!
At the high end of town tracksuits are de rigueur – worn anywhere, anytime, including dinner with trendy sports shoes...think metallic,...
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Feb 16, 20211 min read


Hollywood or Bollywood?
Recently we had the Boulevard below the apartment turned into a Hollywood or Bollywood film set. Serious security guards (& lots of them)...
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Feb 16, 20211 min read


The lost city!
Just on the weather, it is common to have morning fog at this time of the year and there was about one a week. There has been a complete...
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Feb 16, 20211 min read


Life in the gilded city.
I am trying to be Social Media savvy to stay in touch, a friend suggested I write a blog - this is me trying... I’ve been in Dubai now...
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Feb 11, 20215 min read