by Nancy | Mar 30, 2016 | Middle East |
Dubai Grows UP Blogging 101 says always take horizontal photos. That’s not easy to do when writing about Dubai. Carved out of a Bedouin desert outpost, Dubai can’t spread out much more, so it is growing up—and down. When I first visited ten years ago, the Burj Khalifa...
by Nancy | Mar 24, 2016 | Middle East, Uncategorized |
The attacks in Belgium have stunned us all. The news accuses terrorists trained in Syria. While you are trying to sort out your emotions, keep in mind that neither the terrorists nor their handlers are Syrian and that Syrians are suffering, too. A few years before the...
by Nancy | Mar 16, 2016 | Europe |
The Long and the Stout of It It’s rare to hear the words woman and beer aficionado in the same sentence. That wouldn’t describe me. But when I passed the beer pouring class at Guinness, I did graduate to the status of beer snob. How I psyched myself into drinking dark...
by Nancy | Mar 9, 2016 | Middle East |
As I finish my time in the Oman’s capital, Muscat, I wonder why, with all the oil wealth, Oman doesn’t build towering skyscrapers like Dubai. They could, if they wanted to. And then I realize that the foundation of Oman’s success and stability is avoiding extremes....
by Nancy | Mar 2, 2016 | Middle East |
That’s right. I’m recommending a beach vacation in the Middle East. Who would do that? Well thousands of Europeans have already discovered Oman’s sun-drenched paradise.Last week I blogged on places like the desert and now below on how to relax at the...
