http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Middle East , United Arab Emirates , Sharjah en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:19:55 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:19:55 UTC Friday October 17thAt last a Friday when we are not packing up and moving Ian had a few e mails and phone calls to do first thing but then we got in the car and headed out through Deira into Sharjah on our way to the smallest of the Emirates Fujairah which is on the east coast.The weather was very hot with high humidity and rather a lot of dust so I did not manage to take many pictures as it was http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-335672.html Ok so I am about to leave for my trip overseas to teach kindergarten in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirites. I feel incredibly excited one minute and then calm myself down the next minute because I need to make sure that I am packing everything and organising everything properly I really don't know what to expect but today I received my induction program via email for the first week there and aft http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-313897.html It's getting hot in the UAE so time for us to take a holiday in Singapore and BaliLombok. We certainly don't want Nathalie living in the cooler all summer. Granted SE Asia isn't exactly a cool climate but 32 and humid is much better than 42 and humid As you can see Nathalie is busy getting ready to go. We have no idea how she knew that they wear sarongs in Indonesia but yesterday she fa http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-287528.html So nach dem nchtlichen Intermezzo mit 2 kleinen Rakiflaschen am Flughafen ging es dann tatschlich irgendwann Richtung Sharjah los. Die Airline meiner Wahl sollte bis Colombo Air Arabia sein die sich brigens lobt mit 32 Zoll Sitzabstand die Billigairline mit dem grten Sitzabstand zu sein umso erstaunter war ich als auf dem Vorfeld dann ein A320 der Freebird Airlines trkischer Charterb http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-257357.html Dropped by at Corniche for a night photo shoot with a buddy Vinay. Got some shots off pretty well but had to bracket them like mad coz of all the light noise from street lights. Damn tiring that was to review each pic and adjust metering Stopped at Qanat Al Qasba for a moment too. http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-210830.html Sharjah or Kingdom of Prohibition Anyway very nice place. http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-207467.html Hey Peeps..I've gotten some emails as to where the pics are..they are around...past journals..or under galleries..I still haven't mastered how to do this..if you find them look around please email to let me know that they came through thanks dudesciao for now http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-177988.html WOw...the heat today was quite brutal...about 46..but with the humidity...way more I found out that there really isn't much to do in Dubai except eat and shop...shop ...shop ...and shop The amount of money in this place kills me...all made from oil...gas is like 60 cents a litre..from what we figured out....ac is everywhere..the energy consumption here is enough for for all of Canada They id http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-177299.html Yes it has And boy was that a comfortable day. Coupled with the humidity which is currently about 70 it makes it the hottest and muggiest place to be at the moment. Apparently it is suppose to get worse as well with August the worst time to be alive. I haven't really done or achieved much since you were last on here reading my about my life. I am now back in Dubai at work waiting as Bailey a http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-170251.html Our first big trip out of Dubai It was very exciting for us although we had to take the yaris as we hadn't bought a car yet. The yaris was a little scary on the open road especially with Jeremy hoofing it at speeds of around 130km. Even at that speed we still had other cars barrelling past us at great speed. Our trip for the day was to another emirate to go canoeing in Khor Kalba. We met the g http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-165396.html Well where do I start. . .If you have read my last blog I mentioned that I was on a vessel literally stuck in port waiting to go and do the job. I think I also mentioned that the job will be finished relatively soon. How wrong I was This really was the sequence of events that shaped my last 6 weeks offshoreThe vessel some how managed to drag itself out of port and arrive at on dive location abo http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-136165.html Heyyo. Well Irsquod better give a bit of a catch up of the trip so far as Irsquove been a little slow getting into the blogging thing. End of November Jimmy and I flew to Dubai for training. I didnrsquot really know what to expect of Dubai. The first thing that made an impression on me was just how westernised it is. I didnrsquot think camels were the main mode of transport or anything. B http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-124357.html Why hello Well my last update was a little while ago now and I am struggling to remember the things I have done since then. That or I actually haven't done much. The latter sounds a little more accurate.The job in Iran went well with everything going according to plan. Ship was placed where it should have been and the divers were easy enough to track underwater when they were fixing the leak. Bei http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-116370.html Well much has gone on since I last put something up. It's getting harder to get access to the internet as they are starting to place meus on jobs now which gives me little time onshore in the office. But before all that the offshore survival training was awesome. We had to do an underwater helicopter escape in a controlled environment which involved the helicopter turning upside down starpped in http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-111057.html When I accepted this job I took note of the fact that it is currently winter here at the moment and temperatures usually reach into the mid 20's. Talking to a few of the locals it has rained here 4 times in the last 2 years. I've been here about 7 days now and believe it or not it has rained for three of those days The funny thing is is that because it just doesn't rain here the city engineers http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-107744.html I flew into Dubai 3 days ago with Bailey on an Emirates flight which I must say was impressive. After the 17hrs on the plane we arrived at 0530 with the plan to go straight to work to start a course we were already late for as I HAD to stay in NZ on the Friday night for an incredible performance from U2 in Auckland. Thankyou U2Anyway Sharjah was the new base and first impressions were mixed. Th http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-107003.html This has been a long time in coming I know and yes I am alive and well.Sharjah is the third largest of the Emirates after Dubai and Abu Dhabi and doesnt have the huge oil wealth of these but there are 4 others that are quite poor in comparison more about them later.I arrived in Sharjah around 7am and alighted from the bus in the middle of town at Rolla Square. I then grabbed a taxi it took a wh http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Sharjah/blog-55773.html