S P Mount says:

Scary, but how exciting. I love change, I love to immerse myself in other culture, it reinvents me, or at least brings something out that’s lain dormant. The wonderful thing is though, that in this digital world, as you say, you can still keep in touch with everything you know. I lived in Dubai a long time ago, before it became the Vegas of the Middle East, at a time when the desert met the sea and I could (only try) to throw a Frisbee with eloquence. The experience was invaluable, and not to name drop, but my best friend there; the current King’s son to open some deliciously wonderful doors and keep them open well after they should’ve closed. Oh how we used to run round the palace, his effing private bathroom bigger than any apartment I’ve ever lived in, in fact, lined with so many colognes and all sorts of stuff essential for a poseur in a hot sticky country, I thought half the time I was in the Duty Free shop at the Airport… in fact, I’m sure there was a car in the corner being raffled off…. Couldn’t get used to the servants bowing at me though every time I came downstairs (and always a different staircase; a maze and amazing that place was) telling them I was just a poor wee boy from Glasgow myself. Anyway, you’ll have fab exciting times as an ex-pat, will meet wonderfully eccentric people and have tons to blog about. I’m envious, its been six years since I upped and off to plunge into the deep end of the unknown only to surface back in my comfort zone. You’ll make the magic happen, I have no doubt.