Halfway House...
February 21st 2008 Approaching Dubai after a mere 7.5 hour uneventful flight in the early hours of Monday morning, waking to hear the pilot announcing that we we in a holding position some 10000 feet above the Gulf straits.
Fog seemed to be the problem (Well I'll be....) Flippin fog in Dubai, it just doesn't happen.
So we were held for about 20 mins before suddenly there was a whirring of gears and hydraulics, t
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