It's quite a simple story, really. :) My mum is from Northern Ireland, but her dad was an engineer who spent much of his career in Doha, Qatar. She used to spend school holidays and so on there every year. My dad, meanwhile, is from the north of England, and qualified as a civil engineer. He moved out to Doha, because in the mid-late 70s there was a lot of work going on for foreign engineers! He met my mum and they got married in 78. A few years later his work moved him to Saudi Arabia, where I was born. My parents weren't very happy in Saudi - it's an incredibly restrictive climate compared to the United Arab Emirates - so they moved to Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, where my brother was born. By the late 80s the engineering boom had slowed down, so my parents returned to the UK. :)
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Date: 2010-09-15 08:20 am (UTC)