Like many expat mums the world over, every year I take the children on a pilgrimage to the motherland, to reintroduce them to their grandparents, grassy fields and Wellington boots. Most expat ki...
https://www.dubaiunveiled.com/travel-with-kids-the-bad-and-the-worse/
Many of us are travelling with a shouty entourage this summer and, if you’re anything like me, you’ll know there’s an initiation parents must go through before you can honestly say family h...
https://www.dubaiunveiled.com/family-vacations-are-you-having-fun-yet-2/
SUBTITLE: Why I don’t miss commuting There were dire warnings, but no-one truly expected London’s Waterloo station to turn into Wembley on Cup Final Day. The thing is, I’m sure the £800m u...
I get reverse culture shock every time I come home! It’s like a U-bend. There’s the initial euphoria of returning home – seeing family and friends, wearing the cooler-weather clothes in my ...
https://www.dubaiunveiled.com/reverse-culture-shock-and-who-really-owns-london/
Perhaps the biggest surprise came when checking in at the cruise terminal. “Oh, there’s Davin from school,” said Son1, as though it was completely normal to come across a school friend some...
https://www.dubaiunveiled.com/confessions-of-a-cruiser-part-2/
As an airline family it never occurred to me that a cruise might be for us – I had visions that a cruise would involve being stuck on a boat awash with a novovirus outbreak and quarantined to a...
https://www.dubaiunveiled.com/hi-my-name-is-circles-and-im-a-cruiser-part-1/
I treated myself to a foot massage while in Thailand over the past few days. I chose a foot massage as it didn’t involve a locked back room, stripping all my clothes off and lying face down wit...
https://www.dubaiunveiled.com/the-thai-foot-massage-with-a-happy-outcome/
There’s something I’ve learnt about the children of pilots (and I’m talking about youngsters here – please tell me teenagers are different?). A pilot’s offspring might fly before they t...
https://www.dubaiunveiled.com/budapest-communism-and-airline-crew-hotels/
They say things happen for a reason – although I couldn’t really see the truth in this as our bags were offloaded from the flight we were scheduled to be taking to Cape Town. Boarding was und...
https://www.dubaiunveiled.com/over-the-moon-to-run-into-an-astronaut/
If you think about it, it’s a funny ole thing that expats spend such a big chunk of the year away from their adopted home, living out of a suitcase. While most people take two-week holidays, fo...
https://www.dubaiunveiled.com/throwback-thursday-the-expat-olympics/