by Lillian Zahra | Oct 27, 2017 | Dubai
I had a friend in town last week – my first time playing hostess in my new city! I always love visiting friends who live abroad, it always seems like a much more authentic way of experiencing a place. I was keen to avoid the tourist trail and instead take my...
by Lillian Zahra | Oct 15, 2017 | Diary, Dubai
Has it really been… 8 months since I jumped (ok, more tentatively stepped) onto a one-way flight at Heathrow? There’s really nothing like quitting your job, packing up your flat, moving to a new country, starting a new job and picking a country which...
by Lillian Zahra | Oct 10, 2017 | Dubai
It wasn’t hard to pick a venue for celebrating my first birthday in Dubai – having never been past the security gates of the Burj Al Arab on past visits, the Friday brunch offering seemed like an obvious choice. I’ve only been to a handful of Dubai...
by Lillian Zahra | Aug 9, 2017 | Diary, Dubai
Twenty years ago my friend E and I weaved brightly coloured threads together in that gap between school and sitting down to a meal which definitely would have included oven chips. We never gave one another these “friendship” bracelets, oddly, but made them...
by Lillian Zahra | Jun 21, 2017 | Dubai, Travel
Bab Al Shams means “gateway to the sun” in Arabic. Nestled in the Arabian dessert, the hotel is only an hour’s drive from Dubai city but it feels like another world. As my taxi left the skyscrapers and malls behind, the buildings became smaller until...
by Lillian Zahra | Apr 6, 2017 | Dubai, Yoga
For the first time in my adult life, I do not have gym membership. There’s a gym in my apartment building which I scrabble out of bed at 6am to use (due to putting my phone to charge out of reach of my bed) and I do some Yoga With Adriene almost daily but I was...
