It turns out, we’re farmers market people. Every year, from December to June, there’s Budaiya Farmers’ Market. Taking place in, funnily enough, Budaiya, just off Budaiya Highway. Every Saturday morning between 8am and 12pm, you can get farm fresh stuff from Bahraini farmers. We’ve never […]
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The Things I Miss Most About Winter
This is my first full winter out of England. And while it’s lovely waking up to sunny skies every day. Being able to go out without having to wrap up. Or wondering if it’ll rain and do I need a brolly. I’m finding there are […]
Be Kind to your Knees, You’ll Miss Them When They’re Gone
I really rather enjoy sports. Watching. Playing. At school I was never an all-star athlete or anything, but managed to play for a few teams for everything from lacrosse to tennis and athletics (Can you believe I was a javelin thrower?). Back when I was […]
How’s life in Bahrain so far?
Overdue is probably an understatement for how I feel about the topic in this post. On that imaginary blog to-do list for a while, but it’s been hard sitting down and writing. Not for any terrible reasons though! I’ve been in Bahrain now for around […]
So this is what it feels like to be thirty
This post is a little overdue. I had planned to post this a day or so after I turned thirty. But a day turned into two. Then five. It’s well over a week now. Though maybe the distance between the day I turned thirty and […]
The first bank holiday weekend in Bahrain where much too much fun was had
As Mel said not too long ago, the only time someone asks how your weekend was is because they want to tell you how their weekend was. Yep, that’s what I’m doing here. How did y’all spend your bank holiday weekend? It was my first […]
Hello, from Bahrain!
It’s happened. I have now moved to Bahrain! I flew out from London Heathrow, on Etihad, yesterday at 3:30pm and arrived in Bahrain at a little past 2am this morning. The move went pretty smoothly. Well, aside from some packing woes. You see, I’m not […]
The Top Five Things I’m Going to Miss When I Move
It’s now just over a WEEK until I move to a whole other country. Packing has commenced. (Sort of) Nerves are setting in. Cancelled out by relief and excitement. On a daily basis. It has officially sunk in, that I am moving to another country. […]
It’s all happening
For some reason it’s taking me a little while to figure out how to start this post. Let’s see if I can get this post going. You might have noticed a little countdown ticking down on the sidebar over there. Or you might not, because […]