Christmas in Qatar is just not the same at Christmas at home, regardless of where home is! It’s hard to create a Christmassy atmosphere in a Muslim country, with a desert climate, albeit winter here now, so the temperatures have plummeted right down to 25c, brrrrr. The question in Doha is ‘Where are you spending…
I like Christmas as much as the next person but when it’s still miles away and someone says , ‘it doesn’t feel very Christmassy this year’ I can feel my fondness for the festive season begins to wane a little. I like to celebrate Christmas at Christmastime; but the Christmas frenzy is starting earlier and…
Being brought up a good Catholic girl, living in Abu Dhabi where some of the most important days in the Church calendar of the year pass by un-marked, it can be difficult to maintain ones stance. Church Holidays, Feast Days, Fast Days, Holy Days of Obligation, all still grace the calendar but without the aplomb…
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