by Deborah Quinn | Apr 23, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Feminism, pop culture, shopping, UAE, What's It Like?
So I was at the mall. I’m at the mall because “everything” is at the mall: grocery stores, bookstores (or at least stores that sell book-related products), the Walgreens-equivalent stores. These malls are vast echoey spaces designed to entertain:...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 23, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, expat, shopping, Travel
It seemed like a good idea at the time. We’d just zipped through the City Palace in Jaipur–carvings, screens, gorgeous mosaics—and the Jantar Observatory was closed, so we thought: let’s just walk through the Johari Bazaar and then meet the taxi driver back at...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 8, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, legos, moving, shopping
We left New York in July with 12–TWELVE–suitcases in tow. For a variety of reasons we decided not to ship any personal items and instead we took full advantage of our business class tickets, which allowed us each 3 checked bags, at 26 kilos each. If...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 18, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Blog, expat, food, lost in translation, NYC, shopping, Travel, UAE
People here speak English.They also speak Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Tagalog, Gujerati, and god knows what else. Most of the cab drivers here speak better English than the cabbies in New York. On the one hand, yay! Everyone should speak English,...
by Deborah Quinn | Mar 14, 2011 | NaBloPoMo, NYC, shopping
The Kmart at Astor Place has never managed to Tar-jay itself into ironic hipsterdom. The fashion stylings of Jaclyn Smith just don’t quite cut the mustard, I guess, when you can hike out to Target in Brooklyn or the Bronx and find equally cheap Mizrahi or McCartney...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 25, 2011 | food, shopping
The great blue jeans quest continues. After the fiasco at the Levi store, after the “no we don’t put things on sale” experience at True Religion, and thinking I’d almost nailed it (and for cheap) at JC Penney, I went to Lucky Brand. Well, I...
