We have just taken off from Salalah and the desert is dissolving into a misty haze below us. As we […]
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Stephen Fry is innocent
Oman is dark at 6pm and gets light at 6am so we’ve been early to bed and early to rise […]
Thwarted by Stephen Fry.
The wind got up overnight. Sharp gusts that rattled the tent before everything became perfectly still again. Then another gust, […]
The Empty Quarter
This is the day that I have been waking up at five in the morning and thinking about for months. […]
Salalah
The Indian managers were distraught that we didn’t stay for Breakfast. “You REALLY don’t need to leave now…stay for twenty […]
It’s all going swimmingly
As we were getting into our sleeping bags last night Philippa popped out to er, powder her nose, and there […]
Yes Sur.
Ras al Jinz prides itself on being the first place in the Middle East to see the sun rise, due to […]
Oman in a day.
A palm thatch Bedu hut keeps out the bugs, but lets a breeze through and we had a comfortable night […]
To the desert
It was absolutely silent in our little gorge last night. The silence was broken first by the call to prayer, […]
Up, up and away.
Oh to have a bed. That whole Great Outdoors thing is all very well but we appreciated mattresses sheets and […]
The Magic Bus 