Just to prove to Jeremy that I do put embarrasing photos of myself out there in the public world as well. He snapped this of me when I was asleep one night. ... read more

Well we finally made it onto our first holiday from the UAE. Dubai airport was a nightmare with bizillions of people all around. We were most thankful for our new E-Gate passes that let us skip all of the queues and go through customs within about 2 seconds. V cool. Austrian Airlines didn't meet with our most favourable impressions however. The plane was packed in like a tin of sardines and the food was awful (this did however improve somewhat on the return flight). We flew into Vienna and then went straight from the airport to the sudbahnhof train station to catch a train to Prague. As we were there so early we caught a in-direct train and had to transfer in Breclav. This was a most interesting little town. NOT. It was a total hick ... read more

Well we have just been cruising along for the last week or so. We went for an interesting visit to Ibn Battuta mall the other day which coincided with with a visit from the rather strange people on stilts (check out the photos). We had tried to go sailing but decided to postpone that little idea once we discovered that it costs AED200 each to enter the area where they rent the yachts, and then another AED110 each to hire the boat for an hour. We though that it wasn't quite worth that amount of money in the end. We also finally managed to get a picture of the funny little worker man who wears the big box on his head. We have no idea why he does this but it does provide quite a bit ... read more

We had the decided glory of going to the Burj Al Arab for high tea on Friday. It was totally fab. I have been told that you either love or hate the Burj and I have to say that I loved it. I thought that it was just wonderful. So colorful and full of life. The Emirates Palace in Abu Dhbai is more to the taste of a lot of people, but I found it a bit dull, all palcid colors and heavy with gold. Whereas the Burj was jsut totally over the top, and proud. The water fountains there were something quite special as well. They danced up and down, and around and actually carried the light through them. The high tea was amazing. An awful lot of food and I think we all thought ... read more

I decided to try and take Jeremy out for a treat surprise on Friday since he had been working so hard. So I did my research and found this really cool hot air balloon at one of the malls which is tethered to the mall and only goes up and down. However it gives you great sweeping views of the Dubai metropolitain area. Well at least that it what the brouchure said. So we went all the way out to Ibn Battuta Mall to try this thing out, walked up to the counter and the lady said that they don't fly during the day in summer as it is too hot. We were astounded. It was 10am in the morning and was only about 39 degrees outside. Hardly hot at all! We did argue and debate ... read more