Sometime during the summer my husband and I started researching places to visit for our first European holiday. The more time we spent reading blogs and on Pinterest, the more fascinated we became with Italy. It seemed that every town was worth exploring and we couldn’t wait to see it all. When we finally started planning our holiday we knew that realistically we could only spare around 9 days including travel time. Never ones to be deterred by practicalities, we decided to make the most of our limited time, ignore everything we read online and plan to go everywhere we realistically could ..read more

I’m sure by now you all know that I love to travel. In fact, I would say love is an understatement. For as long as I can remember traveling has always been my biggest passion in life. Although I didn’t get a chance to go to many places as child I couldn’t wait to grow up and have the opportunity to travel. As someone who’s been compiling a travel list in her head since the ripe old age of 8, you can imagine that it’s quite extensive. Instagram, Pinterest, and travel blogs continue to feed my passion and as I grow older my list keeps getting longer and longer. I thought it would fun to lis ..read more

          After spending an incredible four days in the Seychelles, I’m reluctant to admit that the island had never been high up on my list of places to visit. I don’t know what it is but I’ve found that the places I expect the least from always end up impressing me the most! This was certainly the case with the Seychelles. In the days leading up to my trip I wasn’t sure of how I would fill my four days on the island but by my last day there I found myself wishing that I could stay forever. From the moment my husband and I were greeted with warm winds and balmy s ..read more

For a blog titled Dreaming In Dubai, I've come to realize that I've written very little about Dubai so today I thought I'd share one of my favorite places in the city with all of you. Amidst the hustle and bustle of Downtown, it's easy to forgo everything and head straight into your favorite restaurant on the boulevard or to forgo the walk all together and go directly to Dubai Mall. My husband and I did the same until one day when the weather was so nice we decided to explore the area in a little more detail. We stepped into one of the residential abodes called Qamardeen District right next Vi ..read more

Singapore has been one of my top cities to visit for as long as I can remember. I always had this image of myself walking around the Marina Bay Sands area and having my picture taken in front of the Merlion. However, when my husband and I decided we wanted to plan a trip somewhere this year, Singapore was far from our minds. We have a long list of places we want to check off over the course of our lifetime and we placed our priority on France, Spain or Morocco. Turns out, we couldn't get our visas ready in time for either destination so we racked our brains for more options and came up wi ..read more

It's not often that we get to experience a perfect weekend. We all make plans for the weekend thinking this one is going to be better than the one before but by the time Sunday night rolls around I'm always left wishing I had done something differently like fitting in more errands or getting more sleep. I had made no particular plans for last weekend and it turned to be one of my best weekends ever. I woke at my usual 6:30 am (thanks biological clock). Luckily for me my husband is also an early riser so I don't have to worry about waking him up in the mornings. I made a cup of tea for us and ..read more

I'm a little embarrassed by how long it's taken me to get this blog post up. I'd actually had it written and queued up for weeks but between work, preparing for my trip to Pakistan(!!!), technical difficulties on my blog and attempting to take care of my home it's been a struggle to sit down and actually publish it. I finally had a few spared minutes today and managed to make that collage you see up there. Anyways, enough my rambling. Let's get back to the actual post. One of the questions I most frequently get asked most frequently is how do I take and edit my pi ..read more

One of the things that I knew I would miss the most after moving to Dubai was Fall back home. New England has one of the most beautiful Fall season's in the world. For 21 years I got to watch the leaves turn to all shades of crimson, yellow, and orange. They would line the streets as I walked and I was always on a hunt to scout out the most vibrant leaves. I would pick them up and bring them home with me, placing them on my desk to look at while I did my work. During Fall my dad would always take me on a long drive through the countryside so that we could take in the beauty together. I neve ..read more

This plum, peach, and lime juice is possibly the best thing I've ever tasted. I think my title for this blog post a little misleading. Tom and Serg, the ultra - hip, incredibly cool, local producing serving cafe that's opened up in Al Qouz of all places has introduced hipster to Dubai rather than bringing it back. I know hipster has garnered a bit of a negative connotation lately because it leads people to think of entitled millennials but in the context of Tom and Serg, hipster is a very good thing. Tom and Serg opened up their cafe in what had originally been a warehouse in one of ..read more

I should start off this post by saying that my husband and I are both afflicted with a serious case of wanderlust and never waste an opportunity to travel. After hearing that we would have 4 days off for Eid we wanted to plan a trip somewhere that would be easy to get to and small enough to explore in a few days. We finally decided on Muscat, the capital city of Oman. Muscat certainly isn’t a destination that’s on the top of many people’s travel lists but we wanted to see what it had to offer. We left around noon on Eid day unsure of what to expect. Although we had made a detailed l ..read more