Oman, Oman

Abu Dhabi - Take 2

Have spent the last week or so in the Middle East - Abu Dhabi and Oman. I flew in to Abu Dhabi on Friday evening, then travelled by car (7 hours) into Oman on Saturday. Quite an interesting border crossing...no problems if you're a Gulf National but everyone else goes round the back of the hut. Also interesting was the attitude difference between UAE & Oman...Oman being much more friendly. In fact, Oman was a very nice place - hot as hell but pretty westernised. Only problem I had was that for whatever reason, I could not get a phone signal...

The Scooter arrives...

Thought I'd put up a couple of posts of "Vera" the restored vintage Vespa...

Rotterdam or anywhere...

Flew to Rotterdam on Wednesday. We had some meetings at Shell. Flew with Transavia...someone I'd not flown with before but they were pretty good..strange colour scheme though...purple and green

The Italian Job

J & L came over on Friday night - we good to see them as its been some time since we last went out. We had booked in to the Terrazza so we caught a cab there for 8:00. Meal was delicious, I had pasta, SJ had pasta with steak strips, J had steak and I can't remember what L had. All were cracking. Surprisingly quiet though for a Friday night - must be the Credit Crunch.

On SAturday, we went to see my Grandad. He's settled in now to the home, and despite still being convinced he can walk, he's OK with his situation. We had a Chinese, well Cantonese from Victoria Harbour in Featherstone on Saturday night, whilst watching England's dismal rugby display - far too may penalties conceded. Food was good, albeit pretty spicy!

Travelled back down Sunday lunchtime. I bought some JBL Spot speakers to go on the side in Radlett. They sound excellent...had some tea in The Three Compasses and then watched Dancing On Ice...all in all, a good weekend.

This week, I'm in work for just Monday, I then have the rest of the week off as holiday. Having said that, I'll still be doing some work as I need to update some of our presentations. It seems the only time I get to do them is when I'm on holiday...ridiculous really...