United Arab Emirates

Don’t ask 😦

We learn fairly early in life that sometimes it’s not a good idea to ask a question Now is one of those sometimes 😳 ie don’t ask ….…

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Sheik Zayed Mosque

21/09/2016 (Abu Dhabi) This is quite one of the most remarkable buildings I have seen : European cathedrals point to a past sense of commitment, labour and worship:…

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Dubai/Abu Dhabi

  Excess: bold: defiant: beautiful: daring – all words that came to mind as I was shown building after building and shopping mall after shopping mall and hotel…

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Abu Dhabi chaos

21/09/2016 Abu Dhabi – so beautiful from the air Curves – even the radio control tower is elegantly curved – like the dunes I remember from Namibia The…

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UAE – Take two – with no mishaps, missed flights or other disasters –
In Fact – A Superb trip with my very very dear friends, who were living there and
showed me so much – forever grateful x

Arriving – a quiet place

In Abu Dhabi. This time as scheduled, 😜 I am now on a bus to Al Ain. My eyes are struggling to adapt to this terrain. Having been saturated with the green of England, this looks so, so beige, all sand, not white, not yellow, just ‘blah’ So I sit and ‘gaze’ mindlessly travelling through…

Al Ain

No not L. A. Al Ain. Okay, I too, had to find an atlas and look it up. So for those without such a useful book (which as I remember was out of date almost as soon as it was published 😂) Al Ain is the second city of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi…

Jebel Hafeet

Where to begin 😃😃 Al Ain (The Spring in Arabic)- you now know where it is😃- so what’s to do there? Plenty as it turns out. A lovely fruit and yogurt breakfast started the day which saw us driving up to Jebel Hafeet. Al Ain is flat, desert scrubland with these sudden dramatic protruding ‘mountains’.…

The Sport of Kings 

So in a country where kings have their way,  falconry ( like horse breeding) can be indulged whatever the cost. Did I mention that camel racing is making a…

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So what’s next?

Wondering what the next adventure would be, I put myself into the care of dear dear friends (whose value to me is far greater than the riches that created…

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Such Adventures

Driving along the deserted beach road, our eyes were drawn by a massive flock of birds on the skyline.   We followed them and found a scene which, were…

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My cup runneth over

and so, still marveling at the amazing sardines we had seen, we wandered further, alone, no one in sight, but a dot in the ocean.   Our eyes adapted,…

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