Category: UAE
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Exporting Dogs from the UAE
We started out talking to several local boarding kennels in Dubai and Sharjah who also deal with importing and exporting pets. They were very helpful and offered up lots of information and a HEFTY price tag. We paid about $1500 CAD to get them into the country (excluding the cost of vaccinations to avoid quarantine),…
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Top 10 things…I will miss about the UAE.
I will miss so much more of the UAE than these 10 things. #10 – Round-A-Bouts At first round-a-bouts were a little intimidating to understand. I have a feeling there are quite a few people here trying to figure them out still. Once you get it, they are actually pretty awesome, but not in consistently…
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Top 10 things…I haven’t missed about Canada.
Things got a little crazy at the end of packing, and the computer was wrapped in a box before I knew it. Here are some posts that I wrote before the move. 6 months ago this post would have been way easier to write. Now that we’re weeks away, I honestly can’t withhold my excitement.…
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Top 10 things…I won’t miss about the UAE.
Though the UAE has been a wonderful experience there are some things I’m am looking forward to being without. After I made this list I realized that the majority of my dislikes are traffic related. I’m sure there are a few other things I could add to this list, but these ones definitely popped into…
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A Farewell to the Middle East.
A few months ago I went for a run and got a very sharp thorn in my shoe. The thorn was so sharp and so long that it went all the way through the sole of my shoe and stuck me in the bottom of the foot. I had to stop and dig the thorn…
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Top 10 things…I miss about Canada.
I’ve been wanting to write this post for awhile about things I am beginning to miss about Canada. Now that we’re heading back, I’ve also been thinking about what I’ll also miss about the UAE. So there will be a theme to my next few posts. My ultimate items are friends and family so I’m…
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Ramadan
This will be our second Ramadan in the UAE. I quite enjoyed the relaxed pace of things last Ramadan and look forward to a general slow down in this holy month. On a practical level, for us, it means that my work day is reduced to 6 hours (without a lunch break). Generally this means…
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Marathons and a Mountain
The last post to this blog was January 30th! This is what happens when routine takes over and adventures simply become living. Of course, our lives have been fairly eventful and we may come to regret not writing them down as time spirals on. I have always wanted to run a marathon and I got…
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Brick and Mortar
Our first year in the UAE, Sept 2012-August 2013, the kids were homeschooled by me. They LOVED it. I actually got sick of hearing, “Mom, you’re the best teacher ever!”. It was NON-stop…in my head. Actually I think that was my mantra over the year. It may have sounded a bit more like this though,…
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The Rest of the Story
It’s been 5 months and I finally feel like I can talk about the first few days of our trip to Salalah with our Australian travel mates. To recall our last day near Salalah see this post. I also feel the need to apologise for the long winded nature of this post…but it’s in my…
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