Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today. However, for us the opposite was true. We were going to visit the old part of Dubai in Bastikaya tomorrow before we checked in with MSC. As the ship wasn't leaving until 7pm we did not have to check in until mid-afternoon. We decided against this option and planned on a lazy morning tomorrow and head for the MSC Lirica immediately after we checked out of the Ahmedia Heritage Guest House. So, we brought forward ...

We awoke at about 8am after a sound night's sleep. We weren’t the only ones who seemingly had a sound night’s sleep as we never heard the morning call to prayer. Either the Imam has read yesterday’s blog and thought 'Hmmm! Texting. Now there’s a novel idea!’ or he is saving himself for the big derby soccer match tonight: Al Ahli versus Sharjah. I have it on recommendation that this rivals the Milan derby, Barca –v- Real...

I was woken by the clinking of glasses and the adjustment of the horizontal bed back in to seats. A new day had begun although it could still be a continuation of the old one. I wasn't too sure! What I do know is that it was time for breakfast. Although a menu for breakfast had been passed out, you could order anything you wanted on that menu or combination thereof. Having eaten so much, though, yesterday in the Clubhouse and then another 3 course meal on the...

Our last full day in the Emirates started by travelling back to Dubai. We could have flown Etihad direct from Abu Dhabi to Manchester but Mrs H's research resulted in identifying that the flights were slightly dearer than other options, Feedback of the airline was not to our taste and she also had reservations about the aircraft configuration. As long as it has 2 wings and a couple of engines, that’s configured enough for me!!The option we chose was to ...