I didn’t want to be an expat

Expat life.  It’s a difficult one to explain, choosing to leave your family, your friends and your country to go and live somewhere else.  Through…

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An Open Letter to my Expat Kid on Leaving his Expat Life

To My Big Boy, We’ve thrown a lot at you these past few months, everything has been a game changing milestone in itself, something which…

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Saying Goodbye to Dubai

And so today we board our flight, our final goodbyes have been said, and now it’s time to say goodbye to Dubai.  We had a…

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Expat Living: When You Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye

So this is it, the final countdown, after months of going to and fro, we are leaving Dubai but just how do you say goodbye?…

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What Living in Dubai Has Given Me

So it’s official, after three years in the sandpit we are headed home to Blighty.  But what a fantastic three years we’ve had, from the…

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Bringing your children up in a new culture – how to help them settle overseas

So once again, it is time for us to pack up and leave the life we’ve built out here in Dubai. Except this time, instead…

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9 Types of Expat Mum You Find on the Expat Circuit

My time in Dubai is drawing to an end, and with it, my time as an Expat Mum. Like before, when I have shared the…

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