Dhaka - Bangladesh. As with India, tell people you're off to Bangladesh and everyone becomes an expert on travel health with the overriding assumption that anyone who visits these countries will see their guts explode before the ink is dry on their passport stamp. The following weekend they order a curry from the local Indian …
Manama, Bahrain. It's quite interesting the difference a bridge makes. Granted, the King Fahd Causeway stretches across 25km of the Arabian Gulf and granted, you could see marked differences between two countries by just crossing a land boarder a little further down the coast but let's just forget about these minor discrepancies for the purpose …
Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia.I've never had to write two blogs for one day before but after the souk, coffee, castle, mosque and dune bashing there was still more to see before the day was out. Next stop, the local mountain. Known to the locals as Al Qarah mountain it isn't realy a mountain at all …
Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia. After three hours charging along a desert highway at 140kmh in a wee Toyota I finally arrived at my hotel. My driver, dressed in jeans, T-shirt and a back-to-front baseball cap was a young chap, Yosuf, who works in the same department as I on a dairy farm who has been …
Bar closed you say? It's just not cricket! Trying to pack two fun filled weeks in Sri Lanka into three blogs is proving difficult but, there is always time to big up the merits of group travel. We returned to the cottage from our seven hour night hike on Adams Peak around breakfast time. Naturally …
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