Is time to go! After over 2 years of just a long weekend in Naples and Lisbon I’m sitting at Gatwick waiting for my flight to Borat country. High Five! I LOVE Borat and am still waiting for my lovely cousin Janice to knit Ween a green mankini for his competitions. The time is passing Janice and he is getting saggier as the years creep by. Please, a mankini to hold everything together. After packing for about twelve different weather conditions, I am off to joi...

Today didn't start off great due to one of my famous ( or infamous) headaches. It may well have been the chocolate overload from yesterday's extravaganza rather than the usual one I moan about, but whatever it was kept me awake until about 04.30 this morning. Having to get up to sort myself out to go to the mountains was a bit of a shock and packing a banana for breakfast instead of a chocolate fountain with marshmallows was also a bit unpleasant. I ended up go...

The last three days have been spent eating, drinking, lounging around in the sun and being driven to another restaurant for more eating and drinking. Shopping malls have been avoided in favour of the beach. Arriving yesterday to see huge queues of cars, we couldn't get into the main beach due to a wedding. Further down the road, we parked up, faced another huge queue but managed to get in with all the locals with their bbq's. The beach is a bit like the one in Ba...

The last time I went to Dubai was about 15 years ago with Tim. I can't say I loved it, I seem to remember Tim being on business there and me going round boring shopping malls. I also remember meeting up with an ex boyfriend who lived out there and was full of the ex pat life. I went out with him, his wife and some of his pals and was subjected to an evening of people who thought they were far better than me. When they asked me at midnight if I wanted to go danc...