Restaurants. Hotels. Experiences
I’m happy to say that we’ve found a reasonably priced yum cha experience, close enough to what I’ll call authentic. Still not perfect…. but close enough. Some restaurants try to do its best, but without the pork factor, you can never really bring out the authenticity of yum cha. That’s me looking at a lot […]
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Another in my series of photos taken from our place, of the famous ‘Dubai fog’ – click here for the others. A little different this time round…. this is the ‘mummy version’, i.e getting up just as the sun was rising, around 6am, with some appearance of a giant duck. Credits to a 6-month old […]
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Dear Sofitel JBR, someone needs to re-look at your website! I’ve just tried to find the details of the awesome breakfast deal that we had yesterday (keywords : breakfast sofitel jumeirah beach residence) so I could link my blog post to it later on, but failed. Click, click, click, click, still nothing. So, you must […]
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We watched as this new cafe slowly appeared behind the Marriott : Counter Culture Cafe, hmm. It’s a 5 minutes walk from home, yet over the last two months since it has launched there was never any talk about it from friends, nor did it ever appear on my Entertainer App or any other deal […]
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Few weeks ago I was struggling to find a ladies night spot for Wednesday, so I jumped onto this site and out popped Shades. Ah ha, since when did Shades have a ladies night? 🙂 I emailed them ( as the sceptical person in me does ) to reconfirm, and they repied to say it’s on, woohoo! […]
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He he he. The 1st of the month is always exciting for liloneoftheashes. That’s when the Entertainer gives its monthly deals. This morning I woke up, and had a flick around the app and guess who’s on – Bussola Italian Restaurant, at The Westin Mina Seyahi 🙂 We’ve seen this place from the outside many […]
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Few days ago I was not well, came home after work and was laying in bed, resting. My nose was running, my throat was sore, and my body ached 🙁 I started going through all the 241s in my HSBC Entertainer and couldn’t find a single massage suitable for my ‘current state’ i.e pregnant. O […]
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Just to add to my ‘above the clouds’ series over the last few years, here’s a collection of photos taken from my phone when I woke up yesterday morning 😉 Always pretty isn’t it…… Click here for the 2013 photos, and here for January 2015. Gutted with the construction really, now the Cayan Tower doesn’t […]
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Writing about your experience at a spa treatment is not easy. With food you can take a lot of pretty photos, from this angle, that angle, aerial view, macro shot, and it makes your blog post looks very….. interesting. It makes you hungry 🙂 When it comes to spas, unless you’re quite happy to display […]
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Don’t worry, they’re not closing! Just for the summer 😉 Recently we seem to have always ended up at Societe after dinner out with friends. The music’s good, and the little guy with the signature hand-waving-in-front-of-face move is always there for comic relief. Next Friday Societe is closing for summer, with their ‘Happy Ending’ party […]
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We woke up early this morning and decided, let’s go for a cycle while the rest (okay, maybe just some) of the marina is still hungover in bed.
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Grosvenor House was celebrating having more than 2000 followers on instagram, and we jumped at the opportunity to join in this afternoon for their celebrations at Rhodes W1 🙂 If you did not take photos as you entered the restaurant, shame on you 😉 Foliage walls, white and yellow, you feel like you’ve just entered […]
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March 2016 update : Looks like they’ve finally lifted the ban 🙂 Not too sure if our many phonecalls, emails to Emaar and RTA, and continuous social media posts did anything but we would very much like to think it did 🙂 Victory to the residents! Link to update here. *************************************************** Original post, from January […]
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Back where I can view my own blog, access social media and check my gmail. Yay 🙂 Blogging time! Two years ago, we were in awe as fog covered most of the marina, giving us a magical view of this. Few days ago when I was in China, G sent me images of the same. […]
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Two kiwis, three filipinos, two japanese and one englishman walked into Asia Asia on Friday. 3 hours later, they left with a full tummy and very, very happy 🙂 Sincere apologies for the last minute cancellation two Friday’s ago. I was over-excited when I saw that Entertainer Monthly Offers had you guys on for brunch […]
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Hee hee. To all that came, thanks 🙂 A month ago I was scouting a few places to host my birthday do. Some got back to me but did not quite fit what I was looking for. Yasmine rang me very promptly to explain what they could offer, and after visiting the place the following day, I […]
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Photos like these, you’ll only see it now. The finished product – once the cladding, the facade is on, is beautiful – but no one ever sees what’s underneath. The concrete, the steelwork, the bare structure. The hard work that the people in the industry put into – from the client, to consultants (yes, architects […]
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We pass by Pier 7 everytime we cycle, and watched as one by one the bars and restaurants open its doors to public. Now if you don’t own a bicycle, or live in the marina, it might seem a lil hard to get there. The safest and easiest way is to get dropped off at […]
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18.10.2014 – Post Event Thoughts So were you there? Did you have fun? My head hurts 🙂 I managed to snap one photo at the beginning around 4:30 pm, and the rest is history. First time to Societe and damn, why haven’t we been there before. Well if you’re in your late twenties, or in your thirties, […]
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Photo credits to the lovely CG 🙂 I sent an email on the 25th of January 2013, to the Dubai Marriott Harbour & Suites, asking them if they had any Ladies Night. They had then replied to say unfortunately not, but they do have Happy Hour, which we have been to so many times in the […]
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