The 2017 RAK Half Marathon On February 10th 2017 it was the 11th edition of the RAK Half Marathon, known as the world’s fastest half marathon and where history was made this year with a new women’s world record time for the half marathon, I was only 66 minutes slower 😉 Both Rhys and I […]
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We’re now coming towards the end of Ramadan, which is a period of the year where Muslims fast during daylight hours for a month. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. In Dubai, this means that fasting times are from 4am to around 7:15pm each day. During this time, Muslims will not eat […]
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In 2014 we spent Christmas in Dubai and this was my first Christmas away from home, cue a sad face and a little bit of homesickness! Christmas is still a very big deal with my family back in Northern Ireland and after 25 years celebrating at home I spent my first Christmas away from family […]
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Over Christmas and the new year Rhys’ sister joined us in Dubai and we thought what better way to kick off a new year than at the top of the world’s tallest building at 830m high; the Burj Khalifa! We decided to book a time which we thought would allow us to see the sunset […]
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We find it crazy to think how much our lives have changed this year, we never imagined we’d move to Dubai and now we have been living here for almost 4 months. I think we are still in the honeymoon phase of our new life and new home but I enjoy living in Dubai so […]
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