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Exterminate
Heavy traffic and burgeoning crowds can only mean one of two things. Either it is the Dubai Shopping Festival or it is GITEX. Regular readers will know that GITEX is a personal challenge for me as the...
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New Top 10 Things to Do in Dubai
I have just seen a tweet from a site called Visiting Dubai with their Top 10 things to do in Dubai. Here it is: 10. Visit the Dubai spice souk 9. Buy art at a gallery in the Bastakia quarter 8. Ride a...
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Pulling Teeth
After a pleasant trip to Vienna where the autumnal cold got me feeling that Christmas is just around the corner I got the dreaded sensation of toothache. So on arrival back to Dubai I searched for a...
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A Worthwhile Cause
I am back on the road and last week was hectic with an in out to Cairo followed by a trip back to the UK for a last minute meeting. The good thing was that I managed to be in Dubai for the Night of...
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I’m Mr Brightside
At the start of last year if you mentioned to me that I would see The Kings of Leon, Aerosmith and The Killers in the UAE I would have thought you would be having me on. But sure they all came and all...
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Korean Times
Don’t you just love it when you walk into a restaurant for the first time to see it filled with people from that particular background enjoying the food there? It happened to me the other day when I...
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Relax Don’t Do It
It is that time of year again when my mates throw one of their epic fancy dress parties. After some rather “vigorous” debate it was decided that Bollywood would be the theme this time. Sadly, I was not...
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10 Things Revisited
I was really pleased recently to be contacted by one of the editors from Forbes.com. The chap had liked by earlier posting about 10 things to do in Dubai and asked me to expand the article. I was...
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Made 2 Measure
Over the last few years the most popular post I have written is my experience in visiting and having a suit made at a Tailors in Dubai. I thought it was about time I revisited this topic. One the...
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Impossibly Bling
I was stopped at some traffic lights the other day down at Ibn Battuta Mall when a smart Range Sport pulled up along side me. Now this type of car is ten a penny in Dubai and I would not have given it...
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Flying First Class
In my last four and bit years in Dubai I have flown more than four hundred thousand miles on Emirates. Quite a staggering amount and probably accounts for some sort of gigantic carbon footprint, that I...
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Start Me Up
I have been enjoying my blogging over the last couple of weeks. So when I was asked to write a guest blog post for the Expat Explorer Blog I was happy to do so. It took a little bit of thinking about...
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Double Decker
While I could write 500 words on one of the local (mainly Brit) pubs in Dubai I think it would be far more entertaining to share my experience with of flying Business Class on the monstrous Airbus...
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Pretty in Pink
It has been a long and hot summer but now the weather has finally broken and those of us living in the UAE are now looking forward of six to seven months of ideal weather. Each day being as good as the...
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Free Fallin’
Inspired by seeing some skydivers last weekend at the Pink Polo I took my mate Paul down to the recently opened Mirdiff City Center Mall to have a go on iFly. It is great that Malls in Dubai seek to...
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I’ll Sail This Ship Alone
I love living in Dubai Marina. Sure it can have its traffic problems, but it is now a mature community with plenty of shops, restaurants, hotels, cafes, gyms, spas and a wonderful beach and Marina it...
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Her Name was Rio and She Dances in The Sand
It occurred to me last month as I gazed out of my living room window the the millionth time that I should actually do something about the yachts beneath me. Not necessarily purchase one, but at least...
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Would you like some Cheese with your Wine?
There is so much to love about winter weekends in Dubai. There are lots of out door festivals, al fresco dining and concerts. So when I was invited to a birthday brunch at the recently opened Chi’Zen...
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O.M.G
I admit it, I am a secret Usher fan. So when a good friend of mine sent me a text and asked if I wanted a ticket. I thought why not? I wouldn’t need to travel far as it was just round the corner in...
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Dubai MetroSexual
When I lived in the UK I thought the height of male grooming was going to the barbers once every four weeks instead of six. That changed when I moved to Dubai and the local barber shop asked me if I...
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