So Abu Dhabi Police is opening a AED 150 million road training facility for kids aged 5 to 17. They get to drive real vehicles (battery-powered up to the age of 12, Minis capable of 40kph for the...
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A year ago, I found myself on the phone lamenting to my sister back home about how sad I was to be losing my nanny. Written by: Laura Fulton I’d have to rely on part time nursery school for my...
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Like many expatriate women who come to the UAE single and looking for love, when I arrived seven years ago I felt lucky to have the opportunity to meet people from countries I’d never visited...
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I’ve always been a bit of a day-dreamer. I came to work in Abu Dhabi in early June 2005, employed as a nanny to a 13 year old Egyptian-Canadian student, but two years later I found myself...
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Buying fruit back home in India is a weekly ritual. Shopping for fruit in Abu Dhabi takes me back to my childhood and to my homeland – and yet a little further around the globe too with each new...
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Abu Dhabi: high-rises and no hills, crazy traffic roadworks, green parks and valet parking. And a coastline that most of us get to experience (if at all) by paddling in the shallows. But half of the...
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For an expat, it’s surprising just how reluctant some people can be to come visit us here in Abu Dhabi. It took nothing less than the birth of my first son to persuade my mother, who came under...
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6.20am: I muffle the dreaded phone alarm and psych myself for the morning rigmarole. Note to self: consider calling it “mighty-fist-strikes-tempting-mattress rigmarole” instead to get that kung...
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For the second time in less than a week, I stepped out of my house this morning to find police and ambulance crews sorting out the carnage of a serious smash up. Maybe I wouldn’t have been so...
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I love Christmas and New Year. There’s something about a mass of tinsel, tree lights and an overindulgence in mince pies that makes me feel warm and comfortable inside. And although there’s that...
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