Newly arrived in Dubai? Eager to start your exciting new life in this international hot-spot, but not sure if the pace, the costs, and the cultural adjustments will really make Dubai the place you’re going to spend the next five to ten years of your life in? One way you can hedge your bets a […]

Dubai is a shopper’s paradise, and there are plenty of options for those who want to buy cheap clothing. The outlet malls are on the outskirts of the city, but it is worth the trip in order to bag a bargain. You can bargain for clothing in souks and markets, but haggling won’t work in

You live in Dubai? Wow! What’s it like? It must be like living in a dream. Actually, for myself, and all the people I know and mix with, living in Dubai is, well, normal. We get up and go to our workplaces five or maybe five and a half days each week and we engage

Cars in Dubai are regarded as a necessity, not a luxury. While Dubai has an excellent and expanding public transport system, there remains an attitude in the expatriate and local communities that public transport is for “them,” but cars are for “us.” Car ownership is a public declaration of your income and status in the

If all you have time for is a 2-day city break, then read on. Here I’ve compiled some suggestions so you can experience the best of the best in and around Dubai during your short stay. Be inspired! See The city covers a large area, having sprawled out along a highway that has become the

Actually, it won’t take anywhere near that long. Dubai taxis are very cheap, depending on what part of the world you are coming from. There will always be some visitors to Dubai who are unused to European, UK or North American expectations of the costs of hailing and riding in a taxi. According to the

It’s Dubai’s most iconic image: the hotel Burj Al Arab, suggesting an Arab dhow plying the waters of the Gulf, is a nod to Dubai’s past, as well as being a very visible benchmark of what happens when money, determination, vision, and groundbreaking engineering technology come together. The billions of UAE dirhams, the thousands of

Actually, there are far more than ten things that your children can do in Dubai after regular school classes have finished. Here’s just a sample: martial arts, ballet, music, horse-riding, basketball, football, cricket, baseball, rugby, ice-skating, swimming, drama, extension/enrichment math classes, flying lessons (OK, there’s probably an age issue with this last one)… That’s more

Although Dubai is best known as a shopper’s paradise, offering a plethora of luxury stores and gigantic malls, online shopping in Dubai is a growing trend. Although other countries such as the US have an established ecommerce practice, the online shopping trend in Dubai is relatively new and has seen rapid growth in the last