The Ritz Carlton Iftar Spectacular; the best way to break your Ramadan Fast in Qatar

Before I moved to the Middle East I had the vaguest sense of what Ramadan was, a slight understanding of Eid and that was about…

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Expat Life: Will I ever come home? Do I even want to?

Last week my mum came over to visit and talk turned, as it always does, to the potential of us returning home.  I’ve always been…

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Expat friendships are what make expat life amazing

It was never in my plans to be an expat. You could go as far as to say it was the furtherst thing from my…

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My love-hate relationship having visitors to stay as an expat

Being an expat more often than not you hit “visitor season” where people come out to stay with you.  A week, two weeks, a weekend,…

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10 signs that you’re raising an expat kid in the Middle East

Living as an expat was never something that crossed my mind when I was younger.  In fact you could even say that I didn’t want…

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Life in Qatar: The Superhero Brunch at the Ritz Carlton, Doha

The last weekend in November was a busy one for us, not only did we celebrate our first ever Thanksgiving with new friends here in…

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I am the trailing spouse

Doha is my second stint as an expat wife, a trailing spouse, a stay at home mum.  Moving here, for my husbands work, was a…

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