Well we went to an awards ceremony the other night for work. It was an award for Corporate Social Responsibility and our company had been shortlisted for an award in the Medium sized company section. We actually did reallly well and were placed the second runner up. We were very lucky to get placed at all. We were one of only two company's that were not arabic. The other two winners in our section were local companies. One of the judges came up to us afterwards and said that we had an excellent application. The highest weighting on the score card was given to company's that have strong localisation programs and policies, so we did really well in all the other categories. But the best thing was that the awards ceremony was held at the Burj ... read more

Well we have just returned from a very very lazy long weekend in Sri Lanka. So lazy in fact that we didn’t even leave the front doors of the hotel resort that we were staying in. We decided to take a little trip to celebrate the end of Ramadan (Eid) and booked a little package holiday to Sri Lanka. Being the wimps that we are we couldn’t bear to go economy and had to book business class fares again. And the hotel was called the Fortress Resort. This was in a town called Galle. Now when I looked up the location of this on the Sri Lankan Tourism Website it said that Galle was 1.5 hours away from Colombo, where we were flying into. However that must be as the crows flies or as the Ferrari ... read more

After our delightful afternoon in Nairobi we got to get up a little bit later the next day to catch our flight to the Masai Mara. It was a pleasant morning and allowed us to sleep in until 7:30am ( a very pleasant change from the day before). Our travel agent gave us a call from the lobby and reminded us that we needed to be ready at 9am to go to Wilson Airport. If anyone is looking to do a trip to Africa and wants some help organising it then you should get in contact with Edward Muthe at Bush Troop Safaris (bookings@africanvacationholiday.com). He organised our entire trip and was totally fantastic. Everything went 100% to plan which is africa is quite special. We met Edward in the lobby and he took us off to ... read more

Well today we did something different. We organised a tour to go into the city centre of Zanzibar to have a look at the old town. The stone town area of Zanzibar is actually a world heritage site protected by UNESCO in 2000. But I have to say that I thought it was really a bit of a hole. It looked just like any other third world downtrodden place that I have been to, like Amman in Jordan, although to be fair it was a little bit nicer than Amman. From where we are staying it takes an hour and a half to drive into the city centre over some rather rough and ready roads. You could lose your car in the potholes if you weren’t careful. They also have police checkpoints all along the ... read more

So after the adventures of the day before you would think that I would sleep like a baby. But no. I awake at 6am Dubai time which is 5am Zanzibar time. Silly Chelle. Our room was gorgeous though with a stunning thatched roof. Shame we couldn’t keep it. We got up and had breakfast and then headed on down to the dive shop to find out about our dives for the day. The people in the dive shop were lovely (everyone here is just soooooo friendly and it is wonderful when they smile as these super white teeth just totally illuminate their dark skinned faces). When we got to the shop there were about 18 people there going to go diving for the day as well. Not so great when there is only one boat. Anyway ... read more