Blog posts are like London buses or policemen. You don't see one for two months and when whoosh along come thousands of the swine. I ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) You know when a day goes to complete ratshit? When you had plans and they gang aft agley? It was tha...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) My first short-cut into Dubai from Sharjah was a wee desert track which ran through low dunes and came...

Our first Pajero was 'a prize from the camel races in Qatar'. It took us a while to get over the fact that we'd just splurged t...

Image via Wikipedia The National's position on the doorstep of the Federal Government has allowed the newspaper to quickly carve a leade...

Does anyone know who's trying to block the desert stretch between Dubai and Sharjah? It's really most odd that anyone would go to th...

I have posted a number of times about the sandy snicket that affords relief to intrepid 4WD-owning commuters bypassing the Sharjah-Dubai tra...

The sandy snicket that provides daily relief to hundreds of 4WD owners dragging their sorry asses between Sharjah and Dubai was blocked over...

It's been almost nine years since the border between the UAE and Oman was agreed between the late Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and ...

One of the many strange and wonderful inventions to come from the mind of Michael Moorcock, one of the great novelists writing in English to...

Driving down a desert road the other day, deep into the dunes on a four-lane ribbon of blacktop snaking into the distance, I saw two men sit...

Shock horror! Gulf News today reports widespread negative public voice regarding Dubai's proposed Salik road toll system. Salik (see ea...