Showing posts with label sharjah. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Sharjah Roads



The most dangerous thing on Sharjah roads: Siobhan in her Hyundai Coupe.

A little bit of Sharjah...






I lived in Sharjah in 1998-99, and it was my first experience living and working abroad. There was no mall to speak of. The Spinneys Grocery store sold some British goods that were unfamiliar to me at that time, and my Canadian flatmate's conversion to Canadian dollars (as opposed to USD) had my head spinning. I thought everything was really expensive, when it was quite average. We had a McDonald's, KFC, and a Pizza Hut, and I hate all three. The movie theatres there chopped foreign films to bits (Sharjah is more conservative that Dubai), and there was no Starbucks. Well...let's just say it's changed a hell of a lot in just under 10 years. I took these from my friend Diaa's flat.