Alia’s 1st Birthday Party – Western or Middle Eastern?
Alia’s 1st birthday party was last Friday. Read here for my post about the planning of this party. It’s taken me a few days to collect my thoughts to let […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Election Fever in Wadi Musa
Wadi Musa is griped with election fever. It has slowly escalated over the past couple of weeks to today when voting took place. People in Wadi Musa love to party and celebrate. Any occasion […]
Beautiful Sunsets from Petra
I’ve dug into my photo archives tonight to share with you a couple of beautiful sunsets as enjoyed from my balcony. This sunset was from the 17th November 2012. This […]
My brush with death – Scorpion in the bathroom
This story happened to me back in 2010, but I thought that I would share it with you so you could have a laugh (or maybe an eeek!) When I […]
BBQ under the stars
Crazy to think that this time last week we had snow on the ground around our house and it was freezing when today was a balmy 15 degrees Celsius, clear […]
How not to throw a 1st birthday party.
I mentioned in my post about planning Alia’s 1st birthday that the only birthday celebrations that I’ve been to whilst living in Jordan are the ones that I hold for […]
Planning a Western Style 1st Birthday in the Middle East.
Two words – Not Easy! Maybe it would be easier if I lived in Amman where given that there is a much larger expat population and it is the capital […]
The fallout from the snow.
We ended up getting about 30cms of snow from early Wednesday morning to Thursday evening. There was even some snow down in Petra. I was asking the locals when was […]
The (not so) simple things – plugging in an appliance.
Plugging appliances in to make them go is not a straight forward easy task. It isn’t simply a case of getting the appliance and plugging it into the power point […]
Real proper snowfall in Petra
I wrote two days ago that we had had the first snowfall for the season – it was just a light sprinkling. Well last night and today we had real […]
