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Great stuff about Dubai
It’s coming to that time of the year when living in Dubai will start to get much, much harder. Things are heating up quickly as we head towards the summer months, school (and exams and reports) will wrap up for the year in just ten weeks (already!?!) and we see another year gone by being […]
Flying Solo
It’s been a long time since I’ve lived on my own; some five or six years now. Back then, I had a flexible schedule: a blend of university classes, office work and eons of study. I had a townhouse to myself, my own car, and still managed to maintain a gym membership. I shopped, washed, […]
The cold winds of the Netherlands
The sunset creeps through across from the Escher Museum, The Hague Ever since the incident in the cold of a Nepalese winter, all the way back in 2010, I’ve been monstrously afraid of the cold. I see low temperatures forecast, and I think of the icy saline solution pulsing through my left arm, cutting cold slices […]
The Next Generation of Travel Writers: Part III
A year ago now, I posted a piece of work written by a talented young man as the culminating task of learning about travel writing. Now, the time has come for my next phase of brilliant young minds to finish up their travel narratives*, and I have even more amazing experiences to share. I have […]
The Next Generation of Travel Writers: Part II
A year ago now, I posted a piece of work written by a talented young man as the culminating task of learning about travel writing. Now, the time has come for my next phase of brilliant young minds to finish up their travel narratives*, and I have even more amazing experiences to share. Not only […]
One more year of it
When I went hiking in Sa Pa, I met a writer – a real one. Admittedly, he’d spent the last two years teaching English in rural Japan, something else I would give a limb to do, but his actual field of work and study was to write, rather than teach. He was writing a book. […]
On a relative lack of posts
My blog has been rather quiet of late. Coming up on my site has been a conglomeration of dated posts rolled across from my old blog, appropriately spread out with WordPress scheduling, a haphazard recipe or two loaded up every now and then when I’m feeling inspired but not photographically inclined, and a bunch of […]
A summertime heartstring tug
There’s something that’s been tugging at me of late, and it’s not just the standard level of homesickness. I noticed, as we drove in to one of the biggest malls in the world on Friday, at the foot of the tallest building in the world, that all I could think about was wandering along Beach […]
Words of Caution: On Teaching in Dubai
In the past, I’ve written about an average weekday as a teacher in Dubai, and noted that it wasn’t really all that different from one in Australia. There’s teaching, a brief break for the internets, planning and wandering about chatting to colleagues. You get to work with a wondrous variety of students, tapping into a […]
Should Cinderella have gone to the ball?
Not exactly travel talk, but it’s all a part of the experience. Trust my students to turn a fairy tale into a discussion of rape, murder and the influence on children. I’ve either been with them too long and brainwashed them, or taught them too well…. A class essay created by the brains of 7C […]
A lesson in autobiographies
Here in Dubai, my students provide some of the greatest satisfaction of my lifestyle. Every day they astound me and I am constantly fascinated to learn more about their lives, histories and experiences. Most classes will have students from more than 12 or 15 different countries, with different experiences of travel and lifestyles around the […]
