by Lillian Zahra | Dec 29, 2017 | Dubai
Riding through the Dubai desert at sunset has to be one of my most surreal and magical experience since I moved to Dubai. Oh, and this just happened to be on December 25 so it made for a rather good answer to the “what did you do for Christmas?”...
by Lillian Zahra | Nov 25, 2017 | Diary, Reading
While I haven’t quite kept up the reading streak that I had when I first moved to Dubai (a lunchbreak being a distant memory, seven seasons of Mad Men, reacquainting myself with gin), I’m still getting good use from my first generation Kindle. My most...
by Lillian Zahra | Oct 27, 2017 | Dubai
I had a friend in town last week – my first time playing hostess in my new city! I always love visiting friends who live abroad, it always seems like a much more authentic way of experiencing a place. I was keen to avoid the tourist trail and instead take my...
by Lillian Zahra | Oct 15, 2017 | Diary, Dubai
Has it really been… 8 months since I jumped (ok, more tentatively stepped) onto a one-way flight at Heathrow? There’s really nothing like quitting your job, packing up your flat, moving to a new country, starting a new job and picking a country which...
by Lillian Zahra | Oct 10, 2017 | Dubai
It wasn’t hard to pick a venue for celebrating my first birthday in Dubai – having never been past the security gates of the Burj Al Arab on past visits, the Friday brunch offering seemed like an obvious choice. I’ve only been to a handful of Dubai...