Dubai - the Desert City Morning had broken according to the exclaiming cockerel next door so I got out of bed, eager to see what the days' breakfast would bring. Downstairs, I was surprised to see an Australian couple who had arrived late the night before. They were very nice and we chatted about their trip to Europe and my forthcoming trip to Southeast Asia. It always amuses me how non-Europeans talk about Europe. Like it's a single entity where all one has to ...

Day -2 "So what effect would these prostaglandins, produced by the uterus, have on the foetus itself?" A bell rings. I didn't get chance to answer my last question in my oral exam as the time ran out but I didn't care (much), I needed to go home and pack! I had a bag of essentials with camera, laptop, lenses, itinerary and money, which I would carry onto the plane and then an 85 litre rucksack that I would fill with clothes and other, lesser, necessit...