Tuesday 23rd September 2014 We, well I should say I had a stressful morning packing up out stuff and re-arranging my bag as it now was over weight! We said out goodbyes, so sad and mum took us to the airport and dropped us off. We were asked when we were returning home at the check in counter so I said not until a year later, but I have a work permit for Canada which the check in lady wanted to see. She seemed to be satisfied. We dropped off our snowboar...

Wednesday 6th August - Tuesday 22nd September 2014 We landed back at Heathrow at 6 pm and got through security relatively quickly before being picked up by mum and dad. It was great seeing them again and we were back on the road to go home! Got to see my sister and Mark who is my sister's new boyfriend who we haven't met before! Stu's mum, dad and brother came over for a cup of tea and catch up. It was so good seeing family again and was looking forward ...

Tuesday 5th August 2014 We had our city tour this morning, we got picked up by our driver who was dropping us off with our tour guide! Well he attempted to drop us off but got confused/lost so we wasted about 45 minutes running around in the heat and I was pretty pissed off! We finally arrived at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, but I had to go and grab an abaya to over my head. It was black and extremely warm! I was even more annoyed! The mosque itself was...

Monday 4th August 2014 We woke up reasonably early and got a taxi to the bus depot and grabbed a bus heading to Dubai. It was a long hour journey but there was free WIFI on board so we had something to do! We got off next to the metro and we hopped onto the metro to Dubai Mall. After a short journey we arrived at Dubai mall, we pretty much kept refuge in here! It was way too hot outside! We did venture outside to tried to take a picture of the Burj Khalifa b...

Sunday 3rd August 2014 We arrived in Abu Dhabi at 6 am and got off our long flight, we headed towards immigration and had my usual do I need a visa panic! It was fine and we finally came out of immigration and picked up our bags which came out rather quick! We met up with our car pick up and had a short drive to our hotel. We managed to check in early and got to our room and had a well needed shower! Our hotel isn't near anything walking distance to go a...