In a previous life, two countries ago, I worked on magazines in London – women’s mags mainly and newspaper supplements. In this life, I am the mother of two lively little boys, live in a giant sandpit and occasionally flee the nest to go to a job in Dubai’s Media City.
BB is our Big Boy (6) and LB our Little Boy (3). DH is my American husband, who I eloped to Florida with five days after marrying. We also lived in Minneapolis before moving half way round the world to the Middle East so DH could fly bigger airplanes. We like to keep things interesting – and sunshine.
I hope you enjoy my blog about expat life in the Big D!
Hello, thought I would pop along and say hello! I’m a fellow blogger in Dubai and just stumbled across your blog
Hello! Thanks for visiting! I’ll be over to your blog asap – love finding new ones, especially Dubai blogs!
Glad to have found you! Will check back soon!
Come again soon!
Couldn’t find your RSS feed – don’t you have one
I do now! Thanks for enlightening me!
Hi there, apologies for posting on your blog like this, but I couldn’t find an email address to message you privately. I’m the editor of ExpatArrivals.com, a site devoted to developing comprehensive destination guides aimed at easing expat transition abroad. I came across your blog through the course of my research on Dubai today, and was hoping I could convince you to share some of your expat insight with our site. If you’re interested to learn more, please contact me: catherine@expatarrivals.com
Hi Catherine, thanks for your message – I’ll be in touch!
Blogger in dubai too, good blog you have going here
Thank you v. much! Will hop on over to your blog for a proper look around soon!
I’m an American and DH and I are moving to Dubai soon. Thanks for your helpful blog to show me what to expect. I love reading it!
Hi Lindsay, thank you for reading! I’m so glad you’re finding the blog useful and I wish you all the very best for your move over!
Hi Circles! so enjoy your postings, I’m a fellow blogger on http://thereluctantemigrant.wordpress.com have a look and see my weekly blurb on life in Abu Dhabi
Denise
Thanks Denise! I’ve just followed you…:-)
Hi. I live in Cape Town, South Africa, and presently work from home as a freelance copy editor/proofreader for various publishers. My daughter and grandkids moved to Dubai a year ago (my son-in-law works there as an architect), and it looks like this is going to become long term, which is quite hard to take form my side. Do you perhaps know if it is possible for me to reside in Dubai with them and yet continue to freelance for South African publishers? Most of my work is done electronically anyway (some of the publishers are situated in other provinces in SA and we’ve never met face to face). I can find out from South Africa what the laws are from this side, but don’t know about such a situation in the UAE.
Hi Wendy, I’m no expert on visas here, but that sounds very possible to me! I can understand it’s really hard for you having them all in Dubai, and I hope you can join them! A friend of mine from S. Africa has her mother here too .. I wish mine was closer! Good luck!
Hi, I was given your blog details via a pilot wife on a pilots wife group on face book. My DH flies regional in Australia and we are interested in making the move at some point
crazy world is the aviation world lol. I will have a good look round your site for info on life in Dubai etc, we have 2 kids also so would be keen to see info on schools etc, cheers
Hi Elle, thanks for taking the time to look at my blog! And good luck with making the decision! It’s certainly worked well for us. I hope my site gives you a taste of life here – there are certainly lots of Australians here, and now there’s an agreement with Qantas, I think there will be even more flights to and from Oz too. There’s a search function on the side panel of my blog that sort-of works – if you type in school, or perhaps schools in Dubai, it’ll bring up posts I’ve written on schooling here. Do take a look at the Dubai info page too. All the very best and maybe meet you here sometime!