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    Come on in... here you’ll find bits and bobs about us, The Larmours, our life, where we live, what we do, and most of all, about our biggest shared family passion – our travels. This is a record for us, a place for us to share pictures and ramblings on what we’ve done and where we’ve been, but you’ll find occasional blethering about other things too.

    We met in Hong Kong, and since then have lived and worked all over Asia before settling in China, where our Saffy arrived and now being based in the UAE where Indy joined us. Since we met we’ve travelled – since we married we’ve been on an adventure – since we had kids it hasn’t stopped… ultimatey, all our small travels are preparation for the big one – that one day we hope to take – a gap year, a sabbatical, a break from the daily grind – who knows where or when it’ll happen, but in the meantime we’re enjoying practicing with lots of smaller adventures…

    Grab a cup of tea and come exploring with us,
    Kirsty, Tommy, Saffy and Indy xxxx

Letter with a song

this song is so, totally, perfect…….

check the lyrics….

When you’re tired of your toys,
And of your games, and of the television,
When you’re done with chores and homework
Then it’s time to make a big decision,
You might need a change of scenery,
It might be time to go
Over mountains, over oceans,
Through dark jungles down below
On an airplane, on a railroad
On a tall ship with the tide
All you need’s a little music.
Howzaboutit, whaddya say you buckle
up and we go for a little ride?
Let’s go everywhere man
Let’s go everywhere, man
There’s lots of fun out there, man
We gotta have our share, man
Get out of your chair, man
Let’s go everywhere.
We’ll go to
Bombay, Taipei, Mandalay, Bora Bora
Deauville, Louisville, Whoville, Glocca Morra
Havana, Montana, Savannah, Varanasi
Bermuda, Barbuda, Or Yehuda, Tallahassee
Khartoum, Rangoon, Cancun, Saskatoon
Kowloon, Cameroon, Brigadoon, to the moon
Let’s go everywhere man
Let’s go everywhere, man
There’s lots of fun out there, man
We gotta have our share, man
Get out of your chair, man
Let’s go everywhere.
Cairo, Shiloh, Moscow, Chichen Itza
Krakatoa, Shenandoah, Mauna Loa, Tower of Pisa
Hamburg, Frankfurt, Beantown, Montecristo
Cayenne, Salt Lake, Cocoa Beach, San Francisco
Saigon, Amman, Dijon, Yokahama
Tijuana, Grand Bahama, don’t forget to call your mama
Let’s go everywhere man
Let’s go everywhere, man
There’s lots of fun out there, man
We gotta have our share, man
Get out of your chair, man
Let’s go everywhere.
Xi’an, San Juan, Pusan, Sri Lanka
Chambertin, Canton, Avalon, Casablanca
Warsaw, Aqaba, Shangri-La, Transylvania
Nome, Rome, Stockholm, Lyon, Mauretania
Hong Kong, Guangdong, Haiphong, Tonga
Salamanga, Rarotonga, Cucamonga, sing-a-long-a
Let’s go everywhere man
Let’s go everywhere, man
There’s lots of fun out there, man
We gotta have our share, man
Get out of your chair, man
Let’s go everywhere.
Xanadu, Kathmandu, Timbuktu, Santiago
Tasmania, Slovenia, Rumania, Pago Pago
Sedona, Pamplona, Daytona, Patagonia
Winona, Bologna, Barcelona, Caledonia
Bangkok, Sliding Rock, Antioch, Tuba City
Sun City, Cloud City, Emerald City, ain’t it pretty
Let’s go everywhere man
Let’s go everywhere, man
There’s lots of fun out there, man
We gotta have our share, man
Get out of your chair, man
Let’s go everywhere.

The kids sing it and it just makes me smile:)

Letter about the everyday – exhibitions

Another fabulous thing about Abu Dhabi is that with it being the capital city we get a lot of great stuff to go and see here – beit concerts, events, festivals or exhibitions. Recently down on the Corniche was the Wild Arabia exhibition – an amazing series of National Geographic images showcasing this fantastic region and it’s animal and landscape diversity. So we combined and afternoon of roller skating down the Corniche with half an hour browsing the awesome photos – the kids loved them… although Indy was rather upset there wasn’t a gecko picture as she’s in the geckos class at school – Saffy was thrilled to find a fox for her class!!

Letter about the everyday – curry

So, apart from the fact that I should be updating the blog more with more of our *Ah-Maze-Ing* holiday snaps and recording all that we did and how we did it and all that – I also think I should include more of the every day stuff – so no pressure on myself, at all!!! Just the little stuff that makes us, us…. and to remember that stuff… and to remember those more every day moments of our life in Abu Dhabi, cos we won’t be here forever…… I mean things like that at the weekend we trundled off to our local “nice” Indian restaurant – we have local bog standard places right beside our building, and we have our local super fancy Indian restaurant (called Indigo, no less!!) a street away in one of the 5* hotels (cos they’re the only places Mummy can have wine with her meal!!) but our fave just regular nice Indian place is just right across our block – I am not kidding, we are SO lucky living slap bang in the middle of the crazy busiest area of town in so many ways!  (although I am also very aware of it’s limitations!!!) soooooo, off we popped – I only snapped these pics on my phone cos it just made me laugh how the kids just get down to it – Indian food means eat with hands! And off they went – koftas, kebab from the tandoori, daal, roti’s, and a scrummy paneer tikka masala all mixed up with rice up to their arms!!!

and what I love is that this is something that they probably wouldn’t do if we hadn’t been to India so often, and they didn’t feel so comfortable eating curry  - and I’m a very happy Mummy that they love curry!!!

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