The things you miss when you're off-line for a few days. I went over to the supermarket, hoping to buy some Legos or some pickled fish o...

Still no Internet in Bneid al-Gar. It is, however, a good time to see if I can SMS-2-blog.

There was some kind of fire and it was somewhere important. Internet go bye-bye here in Kuwait. Or at least in huge chunks of the city. One ...

Today I managed to find a post office in Kuwait AND I took a bus to it AND I even got a bus map. I was spurred on by Sven teasing me that t...

Winter in Kuwait is worth a few eye-rolls to someone used to pipe-bursting frigid winters. Any time someone bleats "it's cold today...

Peter's blog just reminded me that it's Australia Day. As someone who was once a near-Australian, I'm embarrassed to say that I...

I’d been walking to work but today there was a swirling haze of dust in the air. You can dress the desert up in Pizza Huts and office towers...

I haven’t been taking care of myself properly over here. I’ve been skipping meals, not drinking enough water, and burning the midnight oil o...

According to the BBC, we're in the midst of a constitutional crisis over here. A sheikh throwdown, Kuwaiti-style, with tea and biscuits...

Kuwait seems to have a new Emir, although there is still some debate among the royal family. The 75-year-old crown prince--for those of you...