We decided to try a new and different beach park on Friday on the recommendation of somebody at the office. And I have to say it was completly rubbish. LITERALLY. The place was just covered in rubbish. All the sand was complelty covered in cigarette butts and when you went swimming in the ocean you could feel the rubbish rubbing up against your legs. It was nothing like the Jumeirah Beach Resort which is complelty spotless most of the time. We were more than a little disappointed. However the weekend was saved when we went car shopping and I fell in love with a porsche boxster. It is beautiful. However Jeremy is not comvinced as he feels that it is a girls car, and that we can't afford it. It really isn't that expensive and almost ... read more

As most of you know from my last entry I am working on a pretty cool project. Well we have just held a design workshop over the last three days and as part of that workshop we were taken on a tour of the Jumeirah Madinat Resort. This resort consists of 2 hotel, a souk and a conference centre. In particular we saw the inside of the Al Qasr......and it was amazing! I just wish that I had the funds to stay in hotels like this. The view of the Burj is from the Royal suite which is an entire level of the hotel by itself! Just fantastic. The chadelier is worth US$100,000 and was designed by Swarvorski. It was just stunning.... read more

Well life continues on nicely. We took a little drive on the weekend and went up to Sharjah and Ajman for a look around. It was pretty interesting in Sharjah. Some of it looks exactly like Dubai, nice and green and all pretty, and other parts are really really rough around the edges. However thinking about it those parts look a lot like some areas around the gold souk etc. Ajman was lovely. It has very pretty beaches and is nowhere as developed. One thing we did notice is that there is a complete absence of road signs in Sharjah pointing towards areas outside of sharjah. I guess if you go there you are meant to know where you are going. I have taken a few photos of the drive into work. There is construction going ... read more

We finally managed to catch up with James in Dubai. It took us a little while to get it together ( which is really stupid when you consider that he is only about 20kms away in Sharajah). However we finally managed to catch up and had a fantastic time in the desert. The safari was amazing. Our driver Mohammed was insane. We would be driving at nearly 100kms across the sand and then we suddenly we'd be flying down a dune and then up another dune, and then sand would be flying all over the windscreen and the car would be drifting sideways down the dune (Mum you would have freaked - we could just imagine you getting out of the car and walking). There were a couple of moments when I thought he might have ... read more

Well after another lovely business class flight (this time on Emirates) we have finally arrived in Dubai! Our first impressions were a little weird. It was actually the coolest place that we have been over the last week. As in the lowest temperature. And this is meant to be Dubai! The insanely hot place. We arrived at approx 2pm and were taken to the little hell hole that was to be our home for the next 3 weeks. The Golden Sands No 5. Jeremy's idea of heaven. Our 'suite' was approx the size of the lounge in my house and that managed to contain the lounge, dining table, kitchen, bathroom and kitchen. The kitchen was the tiniest thing I have ever seen (and was also the laundry). It was smaller than one in a caravan. On ... read more