by Deborah Quinn | Apr 27, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, expat, family, growing up, Kids, shopping, UAE
Husband and I, we are a rental people. Or we were, until last week. While friends were working on a second house, or a vacation house, or a condo somewhere spiffy, we were renting an apartment in Manhattan (which we moved out of when we left for Abu Dhabi: now we got...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 13, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, lost in translation, UAE
Abu Dhabi has a parking system that (mostly) works really well. You can set up an online parking account and then when you park, you just send a text to Mawaqif and presto, you’re paid up. I’ve never had any problems, at least until the other day. I...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 16, 2012 | Abu Dhab, expat, street notes, UAE
Dear Abu Dhabi Driver, I’ve been driving around quite a bit the last few days and I’m thinking that maybe a little review about how to maneuver a several-ton vehicle through crowded streets would be useful, maybe even essential. Let’s start with...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 9, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, expat, UAE
The other day I went to Spinney’s, a grocery store that caters to expats. Spinneys has a pork room (aka “the hall of shame”) and next door to the grocery store is the liquor store (hall of double shame). And upstairs at Spinney’s is ...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 2, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Discoveries, environment, expat, street notes, UAE
Today, December 2, is the 40th anniversary of the founding of the United Arab Emirates. Before this historic union, the various tribes (each of whom would come to govern an emirate) were busy trying to kill each other, take each others’ camels, pearls, and...
