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How to be a happy expat
Because a cloud wall makes you want to take a selfie. After 10 years living in the UAE, some of that time happy, some miserable and ...
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"It had pizza sauce on it, which I wasn't anticipating." -colleague, after a bite of a "slice"
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Because a cloud wall makes you want to take a selfie. After 10 years living in the UAE, some of that time happy, some miserable and ...
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It really hit home how much my perspective has changed since moving to the Middle East when Nicholas Sarkozy, the president of France, said ...
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That particular corn, no, but we do eat (when it's available) the South African stuff Spinneys often has. Not cheap, but so tasty it doesn't require butter and salt.
And frankly, if we worried about the carbon footprint with every grocery purchase, we'd eat dates and drink brackish water, and that's about it.
Muscato, that is SO TRUE. I try and trick myself by saying "well the mangoes are from India... that's close!"
I can see that, actually - Omani stuff when its available, then subcontinental(possibly brought by boat, at least!), then East/South Africa. European, South American, USA, and other further afield only when absolutely necessary.
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