Travlling is to a great extent about the people one meets. It can be the best place, but without people to share it with th experience can be a rather bland. During my travels I have met truely amazing people and I continue to do so still. I am now encountering a different slant on friendships though, called the language barrier. I met a brazilian lady and guy along with a South Korea lady, but one thing is different this time, they hardly speak English. Fortunat...

Up by 4am. Thaya and Dushi kindly prayed for me before Ieft and took me to the airport, got ther around 5:15. I boarded the plane byb 6:45. I had an isle seat booked (33h), however someone was in my seat. I kindly asked the lady to move which she did. She subsequently asked the airhostes to move. As the back seats were open her and her hubby moved, leaving my with 3 seats all to myself. On this 17 hour flight, I was just too thankful! I uppdated my manual diary e...

Weekend falls on a Friday and Saturday in the middle east. I joined my host family to their Holy Trinity Church which is usual 4 hour service, however I was only there for 3 hrs and surprisingly didn't feel that long as the servie justs seemed to flow. It was also interesting to see how church happens on this side of the world. The hall which can seat 1100 people was packed and everyne was eager to praise God and listen to what message God had layed on the paster...

As I only had 3 days in Dubai, this was the only day I had to explore Dubai city. In the end it took15 hours to see Dubai in a day with help of the Big Bus company and Kiru (Prem;s friend and my host for my tme in Dubai) who took the day off work to accompany me. To be fair even after he has been in Dubai for 10 years ths was his first sight seeing trip with a company. Up and down on the big bus we went, we also did a river cruise down to the delta of the gulf wi...

Eventhough I landed at 5am, I was still up for what Ferrari world was gong to offer me. I'm not exactly and F1 lover, but I must say this was an experience and a half. I was dropped off next to the high way somewhere between nowhere to get the tour mini bus. I met a guy from Birmgimham on the bus, who became my Ferrari world buddy for the day. We boarded the fastest rollercoaster ride in the world excitedly, at 240km lets just say the action ride photograph wa...