Seen in Mirdif City Centre... Now, I'm the first to admit that I've drunk the Kool Aid. I reckon that most expats in their f...

Google being brilliant or scary, you call it. If you have an Android mobile and you're online, then take a number of snaps by rotati...

Manama Post Office In an odd quirk of philatelic history, several of the Trucial States (prior to the formation of the UAE) issued...

So you want to get up to something different this weekend? Something a little more off the beaten track than wandering around marbled ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm contributing blog posts to an interesting project called shjSEEN, which is being run by the Sharjah ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I have, as you may have noticed, a blog. I also have a number of followers on Twitter, Google+ and a few p...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) We tootled off into the Hajjar mountains, a merry little party of merry-makers and nieces on our way to tak...

"Dubai has nothing. No culture, no history, no character. It has no heart, no spirit, no traditions... It's not a real city, it...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The local partner of the New York Times, which reprints the newspaper for a small and discerning audie...

Wot you lookin' at, fat 'ead? Wadi Wurayah, or Wurrayah or however you want to spell it, has long been a hidden gem in the ...

(Photo credit: marsmet491 ) The UAE's Federal National Council has announced steps to ban super-sized sodas in ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "Oi! You! Where do you think you're going?" "I'm moving in to my new place. I've...

The oil fired kiln at Thorban There used to be just the one road out to the East Coast of the UAE, a lasso-shaped affair that snake...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) First things first: I'm not complaining. We've lived here a long time because we like it here. I won...

(Pic from Google Earth) We decided to take a hike north over the weekend - it's literally years since we were last in Umm Al Qawa...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) You think you've seen it all, but 7Days today reports on a British expat teach...

Image by saraab™ via Flickr Here's your own guide to the process, just in case you decide to write and self publish your own...