Jeddah Mom
Motherhood and Expat life in Saudi Arabia
Is it worth spending money on vacations with your young family? This post is about Why you should travel with young children. Here are 6 benefits of family vacation with little babies and toddlers and how family travel can actually help you parent better.
In this post: Al Makhwah is 103 km from Al Qunfudhah. It is a small town in Al Bahah province of Saudi Arabia better known for the Shada mountain and the Watch Towers. This rocky mountain is something to see really! You can only enjoy it fully from Al Makhwah as it looms over in …
What to see in Al Qunfudhah, where to stay and what to do in this seaside town, on the coast of Red Sea, plus a few tips on traveling with children.
Every year in March and April, Yanbu holds the Yanbu Flower Festival to welcome the Spring Season. If you can drive down to Yanbu during this time, I highly recommend that you do. This year, the Yanbu Flower Festival was from 16th March to the 8th of April 2017. If you’ve missed it this time… …
I am back from my holiday abroad and it is definitely a refreshed start here! Just before going on my vacation in September, Words ‘n’ Needles rebranded to Jeddah Mom. I wrote about my decision to change the name in this post here. I have just returned from America and Canada where I had gone for …
And……………… I am finally in Jeddah! So what do I do all day? Stare out of my window or the balcony with Jo-Jo making movies and taking snaps of the totally hilarious street life. We are thinking of permanently positioning a camera in the window. Hmm… more of that later.
First of all, I’d like to thank Sadiya, Ariane and Bhai for their comments and kind words. Undoubtedly, I am a thankless creature! I mean God’s blessed me in so many ways and yet, I complain at even the most negligible of things. I have some really great friends and a great family and the …
Last week was Bahrain and this week we had to take off somewhere again. This week, yet again, I had planned to stay at home and have a peaceful weekend but in some corner of my mind I had wondered if it would be an idea to go some place again. What I had in …
The best way to relax is to get away for the weekend. “I need a little adventure in my life”, I had remarked and that is exactly what my dear Z! gave me. We got up on Thursday morning not knowing how to spend the weekend and then we knew exactly what we needed. We …
