Tag: Muscat

• Moving to another country without social media holding my hand.

  26 years ago (1995), my first Accidental Expat experience, with the accompanying ifs and buts, was no glossy, glamorous paradisal adventure. The reason, there was no invasive deluge of pictures / vlogs / blogs on WhatsApp, Instagram, Google (at least in India), Yelp, Tik-Tok etc…to hold my hand in the hit-and-run learning experiences in an […]

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  October 17, 2021

  2021, Accidental Expat, responsible tourism, Sense of Place

  Indian diaspora, IndiBlogger, Memories, Muscat, Oman Tourism, social media, Sultanate of Oman, thedisplacednation.com, travelogues

• Oman – Adventures-Known

  

  Certain cities/countries grow into you and for me it is Sultanate of Oman…the land of golden sands, wadis and for adventures unknown. 25 years is a long time to forget and move on but it seems only yesterday we were readying for the epic flight to Muscat, the capital of Sultanate of Oman. (1995 -2000) October […]

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  July 12, 2020

  2020, Accidental Expat, Sense of Place

  Accidental Expat, Henry Miller, Land of Sindbad the Sailor, Muscat, Muttrah Souq, Poturgal, Sense of Place, Sultan Qaboos, Sultanate of Oman, The Displaced Nation, The UNKNOWN OMAN, wanderessence1025, Wendall Philips

• Accidental Expat -2 Hong Kong

  ‘…. travel is, deep down, about the real confirmation of very unreal dreams (PICO IYER…’CAN A TRIP EVER BE AUTHENTIC’) 2000-2008…a period of hibernation, of re-locations from Muscat to New Delhi to Gurgaon, Haryana. Property boom and strong industrial base had transformed Gurgaon, a sleepy village with affiliations to Mahabharata (one of the religious tomes of India), […]

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  February 19, 2016

  Accidental Expat

  China, Dai Pai Dongs, Dorothy Ko, expat life, food, Hong Kong, Hung Hom, India, John Le Carre, Kowloon Tong, Muscat, Paul Theroux