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Moving back to Dubai after 22 years has been an experience! Back then we didn't have the internet or blogs. Now we do I can jot down my thoughts on daily life, things we come up against, things we enjoy, the multi-national society, the laws, the weather...plus other things in general which catch my attention.
About Me
- Seabee
- We lived in Dubai from 1977 to 1984, visited on a couple of holidays, then moved back again in 2005. We came because we wanted to watch the incredible development as it happened and we moved back to Oz in 2011. I now blog on Life in Oz and the link is on my last post here. I welcome comments & debate on the blog, but insults are unnecessary and inappropriate. I will delete any which are libel, racist, obscene, advertising or which are simply to make a point but are completely off-subject. If you want to do that, create your own blog. Oh, and I've decided to add a new category to the delete list because there are too many of them left on blogs - stupid comments. If you want to use my photos or quote from my posts you may do so - but only if you credit the source and give a link back to my original post.
Blog Archive
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2007
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October
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- I found some more...
- Christmas in Dubai
- Rights for domestic workers.
- More on prices
- Dubai prices
- Depressed in Dubai?
- Christmas already?
- California wildfire tragedy.
- Dubai expensive?
- Death of the innocents.
- Sandstorms in Dubai.
- Street cleaning, or the lack of...
- You couldn't make it up.
- A logical plan...but when?
- Another vehicle fire death
- They have jurisdiction?
- EID MUBARAK
- Why so many fires?
- No kangaroos in the city...
- Myths & Legends in RAK
- A day in Dubai...
- Life & death blogging
- Boring holiday photos.
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October
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Labels
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- advertising (30)
- airport (4)
- animal welfare (20)
- Australia (94)
- Bahrain (2)
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- brand dubai (36)
- bushfire (24)
- BushW (15)
- business (52)
- buzzing (17)
- censorship (8)
- Christmas (10)
- construction (89)
- crash (44)
- creek (8)
- crime (21)
- culture (16)
- disaster (5)
- discrimination (8)
- driving (125)
- Dubai expensive? (12)
- eating out (21)
- economy (34)
- Egypt (1)
- fire (34)
- government (40)
- holescaping (13)
- holiday (29)
- hypocrisy (19)
- incompetence (35)
- inflation (4)
- Iraq (9)
- journalism (39)
- labour (38)
- landscaping (5)
- laws (163)
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- mismanagement (93)
- national day (3)
- NZ (4)
- Obama (4)
- odd (46)
- old dubai (42)
- planning (46)
- police (23)
- racism (12)
- real estate (42)
- reality check (19)
- roads (89)
- RTA (65)
- safety (25)
- salik (22)
- service (27)
- shopping (22)
- Singapore (14)
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- terror (28)
- The Big Boss (17)
- thinking out loud (22)
- tourism (19)
- traffic (31)
- transport (24)
- unintentional irony (4)
- unrest (5)
- USA (15)
- weather (62)
- wtf (135)
- zoo (9)
Links
- GENERAL
- UAE Community Blog
- Dubai As It Used To Be
- Alltop Dubai
- Souq Watch
- Expat Forum
- Expat Arrivals
- Expat Blog
- Expat Focus
- Expatriate life in Dubai
- Global Voices Online
- ISRIA
- BLOGS WHICH HAVE KINDLY LINKED TO ME - UAE
- Abu Dhabi Dispatches
- Abu Dhabi/UAE Daily Photo
- A Canadian in Abu Dhabi
- Aga in the UAE
- An Englishman in Dubai
- Big Fat Ego
- Corriveau Chronicles
- Desperate Princess in Dubai
- Diary of an MGB
- Dubai Guy 2.0
- Dubai Photo Story
- Dubai Sunshine
- Get Out Of My Way
- ginger and scotch
- Global Muse
- Here in Dubai
- He Said She Said
- idee fixe
- JadAoun
- Jason On The RAK
- Jimmy's House
- Lilleypad-Oasis
- Manodrama
- Mundane Musings
- Muscat X Dubai
- Nameless Blog
- Off The Farm
- One Big Construction Site
- Papyrus
- Pickled Thingses
- Rozard's Outbursts
- SandCat
- Secret Dubai Diary
- slaphappy
- The Curious Traveller
- The Hedonista
- The Mute Herald
- The Sandbox
- Umar in Dubai
- USA2UAE.COM
- - INTERNATIONAL
- a mind is a delightful thing to waste
- Brasil & Jordania
- Expat Explorer
- Forever Tainted
- From Abu Dhabi with Love
- IWWWRITE
- Kiara
- M & J Adventures
- Mean Green Cougar Red
- Mikapoka
- MOZnews
- Naher und Mittlerer Osten
- Probably Madrid
- SamzPlanet
- Skins & Flavours
- The Emirates Economist
- The Grumpy Goat
- The Inner Workings Of A Media Junkie
- The Mupersan's Australian Adventure
- The Peripatetic Engineer
- The Road to the Horizon
- The Sahely Family
- Waiting for Skopelos
- The Weekend Blogger
- White Girl...Arab World
6 comments:
I saw a department store (in australia) putting together its christmas display in september (that's right, a full 1/4 of the year before christmas)
We saw the same thing towards the end of September in the UK too Sam. But at least they're (nominally) Christian countries.
Are Christmas decoration stigmatic over there?
"stigmatic" LDU?
The shopping malls and even some local shopping street shops are a mass of Christmas decorations and window displays in December. I'll dig out some photos of last year and post them...
Home Centre had Christmas stuff in August which is definitely a record for me! I bought some of it mainly to prove to "other arf" who would never have believed me otherwise! Bloody waste of money as I'm bound to have lost it before Christmas!
Hey you guys in Dubai. At least you get Christmas! Here in Saudi, there are 2 shops I know of that have decorations available but not on display. The lead up to Christmas is terribly depressing. The compound looks fabulous but there is absolutely no joy whatsoever in Christmas shopping, no carols, no decorations, no nothing...although that is vaguely reminiscent of the 'nothing' that exists for the entire rest of the year too!!
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