This morning we headed to the Grand Mosque for a quick tour around. This is the only Mosque in Abu Dhabi that non-Muslims are permitted to enter, although you have to dress accordingly, hence the photos where Jennifer, Isobel and Mandy look like a bunch of Gypos that would gladly sell you some lucky heather. The Mosque was beautiful and as Jennifer had visited it twice before, she was able to explain a lot of the features to us, our very own tour guide!After a qu...

When we woke up a hangover cure was required so we headed down to the Waitrose to pick up the ingredients for bacon rolls, much needed.We then headed to Ferrari world, located again on Yas island and which houses the world's fastest roller coaster. This was our first stop for Andrew, Jennifer and Isobel, while Mandy and Neil hung out in the outdoor viewing area. The coaster gets up to 240km an hour!We spent the rest of the afternoon trying out all the other s...

Friday and brunch time again, this time we headed back to Yas island and the viceroy hotel. This is the hotel that overlooks the F1 track so once we arrived we headed for a look around to see the track etc. Jen's workmate Fraser had joined us and we all soon set about making the most of the 4 hours of food and bubbles, there was quite a variety of food on offer with some highlights being the caviar station and the BBQ lobster. The place had a really good atmo...

Jennifer and Neil had today off work, so we headed to Yas Waterpark where none of us had been before. It was about a 40min drive and we arrived bang on 10am, opening time. After our disappointment in Surfers Paradise earlier in the year, we wanted to make sure we got there in time to get a good seat/base for the day. We needn't have worried! The park was really quite quiet first thing. We bagged ourselves a front row seat next to the wave pool which was our ...

Today was another day of pure relaxation, so after some left over pizza for breakfast we headed down to the pool for the morning shift. Much to our horror, part of the morning was under cloud cover, and a touch of a breeze made it hard to read the paper for Andrew. We headed to Waitrose again for lunch where we stocked up on the necessities for sandwiches. By the time we headed back down for afternoon bathing the sun had well and truly reappeared, again a mix of ...