So I went to Sharjah for a day and really enjoyed the museums. There is a huge heritage area with old houses which show life, school, medicine, calligraphy, money and trade from times before the oil. It is all very well equiped and signs and explanations are easy to find and easy to read. Since [...]
The no smoking sign is from inside the museum. So it is not allowed to some inside exhibition rooms which I find very nice because I would not like being in a mueseum that smells like smoke. This picture might open a new category called strange things in the supermarket. I really like the supermarkets [...]
My teacher got a new Abaya which reminds me very much of Madonna’s “Like a virgin” lace outfit. I feel it is strange to compare an Abaya to Madonna’s “Like a virgin” lace. It should be the opposite but it still very much reminded me of it. Unfortunately I was not brave enough to ask [...]
Now that Ramadan is over I discovered that the malls are quite crowded. Malls are nearly the only entertainment in this area. The only other things are the two museums exhibiting heritage items and the zoo. The malls offer cinemas, ice-skating, food courts and of course shops. If it is getting colder I would like [...]
Food colour is a very great invention. There is no other way giving milk a green colour and still drink it. In Germany it was necessary to go to a very big supermarket to get some. In Oslo I could not find any. But Buraimi is food colour paradise. Thanks to the Americanization or maybe [...]