Blogs from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Middle East - page 111

first leg • The case of the missing contact lens holder So their journey begins at Charles De Gaulle airport and already there is chaos! Traumatised from standing patiently in the check in queue whilst the biggest coach load of French push in front of us Saz realises she has checked in her contact lens holder and solution (ideal when you have a 9 hour trip ahead of you!) Discovering that the terminal building has little in it but some cool escalators, toilets and a newsagent they decide to improvise….2 boxes of tic tacs and a bottle of water later all was well in their world. • Dubai dodgem cars Sitting on the balcony of the latest and greatest air-conditioned oasis palace after their first exhausting day in Dubai, sleeping, saz and ficks sit outside on ... read more

Well hello all, I am back in the land of desert and never ending heat!!! Have been busy at work since I came back from Oz, but did make time to enjoy the visit of one of our favourite sons, Dan the son. It was great to finally meet him and to see how similar he is to his brother. (For those of you who are scratching your heads, I am talking about Matt's brother Dan). I am pretty sure that he managed to have a great time here, although I was not lucky enough to play him, and beat him at pool!! That will have to wait until August. I am off to work again tomorrow, and this time off to the lovely Athens in Greece. Till my next installment....... ... read more

Suprise, Sorry we are late for our first entry, we were playing in traffic. Well our journey started last tuesday May 1st, with enough tears to fill drought ravaged (haha ravaged) dams. We flew out at 7:20pm and on our way through customs Matt was kindly asked to step aside to check his rather sexy body for explosives, those of you who placed bets on this should collect now. Luckily the all clear was given and our trip was allowed to proceed. A stop in Singapore airport for about 20 mins after our 7 hour flight was enough to find the best beer garden (so far) in the world with a humidty of around nine million and passing cops with heavily armed machine guns. (Matt was again slightly nervous) Once we got back onto our ... read more

After our teary goodbyes in England we arrived in Dubai in the early hours of the morning so it wasn't until around 3am that we got to our apartments. We stayed at the Golden sands 3 apartments for 219 pounds for 5 nights. We could not find a fault with the room. We were very hungry when we arrived so decided to splash out and get room service- we had 2 big steak sandwiches and chips for less than 8 quid. Not bad and it went down our belly's a treat as well. Our first full day in Dubai was pretty much wasted because we slept in till the afternoon. When we did get up we did boring stuff such as going to the supermarket and getting food in for our stay as we are ... read more

It is 7:40pm on Friday, April 27th. Now that is what you call up to date. I am sitting in area 3 of Dubai international airport six hours early for a flight. We’ve already been here for almost two hours. Even with a guaranteed late checkout thanks to our Starwood Gold membership and a trip the Deira souqs, we find ourselves here too early. I guess we could have tried to do more, but we’ve done everything we wanted to do (or could afford) in Dubai, and it’s time to go. Jumeirah Open Beach: So salty, you can’t drown Our lofty plans to get to the beach before sunrise do not materialize and the rays creep into our dark room signaling our failure. It’s all good, the beaches do not open until 8am anyway. We sign ... read more