And the Winner Is…
Christine! Thanks sooo much to everyone who participated in my latest and first exclusively Aussie giveaway courtesy of raw-pleasure.com.au who generously donated one of their spiralisers like I featured here. This was a really exciting competiton, so much so that another company, this time UK based have decided to get on board and offer something similar, to my UK based readers, but this time with 3 giveaways, I will post details of these later! Thank you to everyone for your kind and interesting comments regarding my life here in Saudi. And I loved hearing some of your stories about where YOU live and have lived. I think I need to schedule a follow up post more »
Share on FacebookLiving in the Gulf
It’s the weekend! Well it is for me. I just got back from a shopping expedition to Bahrain (and dropping my boyfriend off to the airport, he’s gone home for 2 weeks to Australia and I wish I could have gone too!) Wow, 2 visits to Bahrain in 1 week is a little unusual for me, I only aim to go there once a month but sometimes it just happens. Here are some tidbits about Bahrain & Saudi for those of you that don’t already know: (for those newbie readers I am an Australian, living in Saudi Arabia) Bahrain is an island country in the Persian Gulf (made up of 33 smaller islands) joined to more »
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Yesterday, in my part of the world it was Summer Solstice (the official first day of Summer when the sun is at it’s maximum elevation.) Although you have already read about how freakin hot it’s been here, I would have thought it began at least a month ago! Revellers watched the sun come up at Stonehenge in the UK, but I was able to witness the sunset in Bahrain and help understand a theory that a Saudi archaeologist is promoting. He believes an ancient Saar settlement in the Dilmun civilisation had an oddly shaped room in a temple where the sun would set in the corner once a year to alert the people to a more »
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