Twibber Stories

We moved to Abu Dhabi 5 years ago, because my husband, an engineer, was transferred to here. The capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a cool place to live, very family friendly - and not as crazy busy and glitzy as our “sister” Dubai…

For many years I have been doing business with the Middle East, so I know a lot of people from Lebanon. How big the shock was to learn about the destruction of the capitol Beirut by the explosion in the harbor: 300,000 lost their homes, so…

Originally the family (me, my husband and our two kids) wanted to travel somewhere, but with the Covid-19 restrictions, all our plans were cancelled. Then we thought, why don't we visit my sister at the Baltic sea, where she has for years spent her summer holidays…

Usually I travel a lot for work - usually! But the coronavirus had locked us down for three months. So I couldn't wait to fly with my family from our home in the Gulf region to Berlin, Germany.

The world needs people like Geetha! Our community in the desert, a quick ride from glitzy Dubai, has parks, playgrounds, lots of families – and a WhatsApp group of a few hundred neighbors.

A few weeks ago my friend Marco called me, saying he recently bought 126 show drones for his company A & O. They have small lights, and Marco can program them to "paint" pictures in the dark sky.

About 20 years ago I lived in New York and I still have a lot of friends in the US. Following first the news on the deaths, the coronavirus brought and now the riots in so many cities with so much violence, I reached out to…

I love to cook, but admit that I often rely on convenience products, and I throw away leftovers.