Boom time in August

It seems that most of the UAE expatriate nationals have decided to stay and spend their summer vacation in Dubai. This is fantastic for the local economy which normally witnesses a mass exodus from July onwards until schools return in September. With the credit crunch taking it’s toll I was dreading the thought of more [...]

Mrs B

Mrs B has now arrived in Dubai and has settled into the Jumeirah lifetsyle, the only worry I constantly have now, is that she finds it hard to convert Dihrams into Sterling, so my poor old bank account has taken a beating! Lets hope this is only a temporary problem!

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

In November, myself and 4 of my friends will be decending to the Yas Marina Circuit to watch the 1st ever Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Having just watched the Bahrain Grand Prix and the National Geographic program on the construction of the circuit. I now have every confidence that 30,000 workers will make this a [...]

Let to Buy UAE style!

With the property crash around corner, the Dubai Property Developer have started to try their hand at Let to Buy Schemes, in principle it is an excellent scheme to assist first time buyers onto the property ladder.
Today I paid a visit to Emaar, one of the largest developers in the UAE, to check out their [...]

Chocolate n’ Contax

With Ramadan well and truely behind us for another year. Our resident squirrel colleague has decided to change her diets to an extremely variety of snacks and extreme amounts of coffee. The fact is that her mother is completely in the dark about this shift in diet and continues to provide 3 healthly meals 7 [...]

Emirates ID Cards

We have been informed by the UAE government that all expatriates and locals must have an identity card by December 31st. Though as I am sure most expatriates living in Dubai and other Emirates will tell you that this is chaos and is never going to happen in time. The online registration form is so [...]

Queen in Dubai

This weekend I went to see Queen play in Dubai Festival City. Upon getting to Festival City I was directed to the lonely car park outside, where 12,000 people gathered to see Queen+Paul Rogers play to a mostly expat crowd. Whilst the concert started with great gusto. The middle was rather tepid with a a [...]

The Eastern Province

Recently I paid my first visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, apart from being told shock and horror stories about the place, I was to my surprised plesantly surprised.
Immigration was relatively easy and Dammam airport was extremly huge, I was told by a colleague that it is the largest airport in the world by [...]

Mumbai, home to 16m Mumbaikers and 16 million Nanos?

Well they say that Mumbai is the jewel of India. It is amazing to think that today people are looking to move around in a car that costs just a lac. Whilst moving is the objective and the roads in India continue to degrade to a state of beyond terrible.
Whilst the Nano, interesting it took the [...]