We took an A380. It's quicker... So, here we are back 'in station' from 'leave in UK'. The coming week will invo...

Frequently Asked Questions #SharjahSaturday  What IS #SharjahSaturday? It's just a wee Twitter hashtag. I've proposed a route ...

The flowering of Islamic science resulted not only in the translation and preservation of the knowledge of the ancients, but in a remark...

Fen's chocolate cake. This is actually legal . Returning from the desert and its amazing wildlife, the idea is to drop into the ...

We went to stay with friends over the summer - they had lived here in the Emirates but returned to Holland, being Dutch as they is. Andr...

Jebel Mleiha Squelching through a muddy field packed with incurious sheep to once again recover the stupid toy drone I was trying to...

The site of Ed-Dur. Nothing to see here, folks. Move on, move on... In the heady days of the building boom, back in the early 'n...

The stunning Mleiha Archaeological Centre - the only such centre in the Emirates, sadly... I was rabbiting on about the amazing arch...

The site at Faya-1 It's a little appreciated fact, but on the edge of the desert interior of Sharjah lies a site which marks ...

The simple life of the Trucial States in the 1950s - A display at Ajman Museum... As those of you that know me will by now have re...

See you, pal? See you? It's been nigh on a year, don't yer know. Have I missed y'all? Truth is, not so much. I've spe...

(Image Credit: Wikipedia) The car was down at Al Futtaim, going through the process of leaching several thousand dirhams from my b...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Here's a story. Globe-spanning super-airline Qatar Airways started life as a 'labour flight...

It's a long story of no interest to anyone but myself, but hell, this is my blog and if I want to be a boring old git, nobody can sto...

I wrote in the summer about the 'passing' of the Hatta/Al Ain track . It's inevitable, both the passing of the wadi tracks t...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) So we are taken from gin pahits to fags to reminiscing in general. It's been a strange...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) When I first got involved in publishing, I was introduced to a strange world of new terminologies an...

The Mackwoods factory at Labookellie is a charming trip Mackwoods' tea factory at Labookellie is on the A5 up to Nuwara Eliya fr...

We spent the weekend at the sublime Hatta Fort Hotel because we've been married 22 years and both of us needed to get away to overco...