Rain Room. Funky outside, funky inside. For the purposes of #SharjahSaturday, Rain Room is a two minute walk from the end of the Ira...

Here's your Second Reminder. Next week I'll post more detail about each of our intended locations. The idea is you can come along...

Neece holding cockroach at Green Planet. This is the expensive way to do it.  For the same experience at zero cost, pop the nearest d...

Wildlife. Rawr. Many, many years ago I interviewed a lady called Marijke Joengbloed . She was the archetypal Expat Expert - a woman ...

Al Hisn Sharjah Here it is, folks, the news you've all been waiting for. We're going to find out what's happening in the...

Okay, it's a fair cop, I'll come quietly. It was me. I done the blag. We had a bit of a clearout yesterday - chucking out bags...

See you, pal? See you? It's been nigh on a year, don't yer know. Have I missed y'all? Truth is, not so much. I've spe...

I can't remember how we heard about Rain Room. But we did and a glance at the Sharjah Art Foundation website was intriguing, to say ...

Blog posts are like London buses or policemen. You don't see one for two months and when whoosh along come thousands of the swine. I ...

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

Sharjah's inland town of Dhaid has an annual date festival. Who knew? We were wending (actually, waddling or wobbling might be more ...

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