As predicted, I didn’t feel well at all when I woke up this morning, with a thick head and a sore throat, so I decided not to go up for breakfast. Instead, Trevor brought a cup of coffee back for me and I drank it sitting up in bed. Then I shakily got washed and…
Year: 2018
Oh, man! We’re in Oman
Had a bit of a lie-in this morning, until 8.00am in fact, because we weren’t due to arrive in Muscat, Oman until 12:00 noon. Oman would be our 83rd country visited. 😊 We went out onto our balcony and noticed that, despite a latitude that was only just outside the Tropics, it was cooler than…
All About Abu Dhabi
Woke up several times in the night, still slightly out of sync with the new time zone. At 5:45am the wailing of the imam from a nearby mosque, reading verses from the Qu’ran, woke me up, so I got up briefly to close the balcony door (which we’d left ajar during the night for some…
From Durham to Dubai
A new year, a new holiday. After an excellent night out last night at our local pub to see in 2018, we woke up this morning with a new excitement – today we were setting off for another cruise! 😊 This time, however, there was no leaving the house in the early hours of the…




