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Tag: Oman

  • Day One in the Desert

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    Question: How good is a spatula at digging a car out of sand? Answer: Better than a coolbox lid but not not as good as Tupperware It was fine last night. The black-top had turned to dirt-track and the dirt-track had turned to sand-track but we weren’t too bothered because we knew there was a…

  • A Day in the Desert – Sharqiya Sands in Pictures

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    I keep having to pinch myself over here in Oman as a reminder that I am not on holiday and that these amazing places I visit are done so on my weekend, just a few hours’ drive from Muscat. One of the highlights of my week is downloading the photos from the previous weekend for…

  • Off to the Dhofar Mountains

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    One of the slight quirks of life in Oman is that you never quite know when public holidays will occur. They’re only announced a few days in advance. Thus it was only last Wednesday – with the announcement of four days off work for Eid al Adha – that Laura and I could properly commit…

  • Living in Oman

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    As of last weekend I am now based in Muscat, Oman, for the next few months. I’ve never been anywhere in the Middle East before (unless you count Baku airport) or lived in country whose first language isn’t English (or which is quite so hot). It already seems like a warm and welcoming place, and…