12.5.12

Afternoon Tea is Back II

Using the computer now rather than the phone, here are the fascinating treats in store for anyone who takes afternoon tea at Raffles Hotel in the Wafi Centre in Dubai: Spring and Summer menu 2012.

All I can take credit for is scoffing the lot!

DW











11.5.12

Afternoon Tea is Back!

Went back to Raffles Hotel at the Wafi Centre Dubai for afternoon tea today and it was really good. Very creative!

Here's just one of several photos to drool over!

DE

Dubai Night Time and Me!

Here are some rarely seen views of Dubai ... and a suave one of me!











DW



10.5.12

Charger Charader

The other day I stared at my travelling mobile phone ... that's the one that gets the local SIM cards when I travel ... and realised that the battery was running down. Then I had a vision of the USB cable that connects to the phone being on my dining table and NOT anywhere near the phone.

Grr!

Last night I walked to the Mall and bought a new charger for around GBP12 and then charged the phone. All was well.

When I woke up this morning FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON I asked myself, did you check in your briefcase for the Nokia phone charger? The answer was, No!

So I looked in the briefcase and there was my charger ... not a USB cable but the full and proper Nokia charger.

Well, it really isn't unusual for me to have two chargers for a phone so having two chargers for the Nokia makes things normal. However, the manner in which I got the second charger makes me a charger charader ... and a clot!

DW

The answer's 23

I was asked today to list the countries I have worked in over the last ten years ... here it is:

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Romania
United Kingdom
Afghanistan
Dubai
Abu Dhabi
Kuwait
Oman
Saudi Arabia
Switzerland
Hungary
Thailand
Singapore
Vietnam
Malaysia
Pakistan
Holland
Sudan
Albania
Qatar


Thought you'd like to know!


DW

8.5.12

It Couldn't have Happened to a Nicer Club!

The world knows now that Blackburn Rovers FC has been relegated from the Premier League.

Sorry for that ... not!

DW

Dubai Mall and Rather a Large Moon!

I managed to finish my work reasonably early this evening so decided to go for a walk to the Dubai Mall: just 15 minutes or so up Financial Centre Road from my hotel. The weather was not too hot and therefore I had a comfortable walk. I peregrinated for about three hours altogether, with a stop for dinner of about half an hour in the middle. I bought some of my favourite Molton Brown soap while I was there so t' job's a good 'un.

On the way back down Financial Centre Road I saw rather a large moon in he sky. Of course, my big moon snapping camera and lens are in the UK. The reason the moon looks so big is that it has just been at its perigee so is about as near to Earth as it gets ... so it looks bigger at the moment. It looks a LOT bigger. It would have made a nice series of photos too. Grr!

DW

6.5.12

This is good fun!

I found this accidentally last night but really enjoyed it. Of course, you will find that some of the people who left comments on that page are warped!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFCeJTEzNU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

DW

On the Sun Terrace

Well, it could be worse! I am sitting on the sun terrace of the hotel looking at at the Burj Khalifa which is about 300 - 400 metres away. About to eat for the first time in about 12 hours.

I know where I'm going ... !!

I arrived at Abu Dhabi airport early this morning so had to hang around for a while as my meeting wasn't scheduled until 11 am: I made a call and had the meeting brought forward though so that was good!

Then I got into the taxi:

Me: Al Salam Street, please
Taxi Driver: in Abu Dhabi?
Me: (inwardly) Oh! No! Here we go again, shades of Qatar!

We drove in the general direction of the city and I made 6 ... 7 ... 8 phone calls, handing my phone over to the driver. Of course, he KNEW the AREA but not the exact street ... Pfffft! We stopped at the building he believed to be the right one: labelled TAQA when it should have been labelled TRA. I went along with it and he carried my bags. Well, we had not arrived at my destination but we were within a block of it so that was alright then!

After that, with just two hours' sleep on the plane I had a 3.5 hour meeting and then had to wait for an hour and a half for a car to get me to my hotel. Let me be perfectly honest and admit that I was taken to the wrong hotel because of my own ineptitude but that was resolved fairly quickly!

It's just after 5 pm now and I had intended to have a nap and then ruminate on the output from today's meeting but will eat, then work, then sleep early.

Early start tomorrow.

Chin chin!

DW