“In a very cold night, even houses want to have houses of their own to enter inside them and feel warm!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan My wife , many years ago when we first moved to the UAE, wrote a blog post titled “I love winter”, and in that article she says she never thought […]
“Filthy water cannot be washed.” – An African Proverb The importance of fresh drinking water cannot be overstated, and as we get our small piece of paradise ready for our eventual habitation, we realized that we need more than an open well for a source of clean drinking water. After a long deliberation, and […]
“There are experiences of landscape that will always resist articulation, and of which words offer only a remote echo – or to which silence is by far the best response.” – Robert Macfarlane – April visit 2018
“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.” – Anaïs Nin – Life in the UAE has an expiry date. Every expat, no matter how many years he or she spends here, can only ever call it ‘home’ temporarily. We […]
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