Well we have been having a lot of very heavy fog recently. I had to drive up to Abu Dhabi on Sunday and had to drive through this fog and it was actually quite scary. I even thought about stopping and turning back as the fog was so thick that the fog lights did nothing and you couldn't see anything 5 metres ahead of you. Well today everything went very wrong for people in Dubai and there was a major crash on Sheikh Zayed Road on the boundary of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Apparently over 200 cars were involved and about [View Full Entry]

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We had the pleasure today of spending a lovely afternoon with some wonderful people, eating, drinking and generally being merry! The usual crowd (Jess, Rod, Leanne and Steve) were in attendance, along with some newbies (Sascha, Stewart, Shaun and Collette) Yes that is correct. We went to yet another brunch. However this time we branched out a little bit and tried a different location. One that was not a Jumeirah brunch. And unfortunately that may have been a wee mistake. We went to the Emirates Hills Golf Course for brunch and while it was lovely it just couldn't quite meet the [View Full Entry]

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We were due to fly back to Dubai in the afternoon so we planned our morning very carefully to try and see as much as possible. High on our list of things to do was to try and pick up some presents for people. So we therefore decided to head to the local flea markets, which apparently have an astonishing amount of stuff on sale. The markets were located very close to the hotel where we were staying, but unfortunately not close enough to walk, and not on the same metro line as our hotel. We therefore decided to catch the [View Full Entry]

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We woke up in the morning after my first evening in Moscow to find that it had snowed over night and that there was now a light dusting of new snow all about on the ground. Which was very cool - literally! We decided to spend the day retracing our steps back to Red Square to see all the things in the daylight as well as exploring some things that we hadn’t gotten to see yet. So we headed out of the hotel off to the metro station that was luckily just across the road. Our first stop of the day [View Full Entry]

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Well the day finally arrived and I was picked up in my nice and shiney Emirates limosuine and taken to the airport for my flight to Moscow. I had decided that since I had been working so hard recently that I deserved a little treat so thanks to the helpful and priceless nature (and I can assure you that business class flights to Moscow do come at a price) of mastercard I was soon winging my way up to another land. The trip was amazing. It was so weird to be flying over land the whole time. I am used to [View Full Entry]

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Well the trials and tribulations of getting a russian visa are insane! Dave was going to moscow for work so I decided that I had been working really hard and rather deserved a wee treat so I decided to go up and join him in moscow for the weekend. It is only about 5 hours on a plane so it was doable. What was not doable however was getting a russian visa. What a nightmare. In order to get a visa you have to get yourself an original copy of at tourist voucher sent to you. For me this cost aed1,000 [View Full Entry]

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As we were driving into Dubai the other day we say the most amazing layer of dirt, dust, smog....whatever..... just hanging in the sky. [View Full Entry]

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Rod, Jessie, James, Sascha and I headed off to the joys of the peanut butter jam on Friday night. The peanut butter jam is a gig where local bands get up and play their own songs for 1/2 hour sets. Rod's friend Mike was playing there that night so we all headed along to hear him play. The Peanut Butter jam is set on a rooftop of the Pyramids complex at Wafi City. And it is just amazing. You get to lie back, under the stars on bean bags, listening to live music. Really what could be better. Especially when the [View Full Entry]

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Today I had to go up to Abu Dhabi to do a presentation to a potential client on sustainability (yes it has been a very busy time recently). Anyway on the way up there I managed to take some photos of the new grand mosque that they are building out of the window of the car. The thing is just ENORMOUS! [View Full Entry]

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We finally managed to go and see the flamingos on the weekend. We have been trying to go and visit them for an awfully long time but have never managed to actually get there for a number of reasons. However on Saturday we actually managed to get out of the house and in the car and drive to the sanctuary. At which point we found that the gate the sanctuary is padlocked and that to get into it you have to get a permit from the environmental department of Dubai Muncipality. So we ended up just taking these photos through the [View Full Entry]

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