Well, it would appear as if 5pm on Friday the 7th of February is the time to be at the Intercon Festival City. That's when I'l...

Here's your Second Reminder. Next week I'll post more detail about each of our intended locations. The idea is you can come along...

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 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...

Well, this is a first. It's only been eighteen years since I first sent a book to a literary agent (almost to the day, funnily enou...

Okay, it's a fair cop, I'll come quietly. It was me. I done the blag. We had a bit of a clearout yesterday - chucking out bags...

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 ...

Manama Post Office In an odd quirk of philatelic history, several of the Trucial States (prior to the formation of the UAE) issued...