Something to look forward to: winter

What can I say? I know it’s been quiet on the blog front.

My excuses are: summer is a time for reflection (too hot to do anything else), I have dozed out under the spell of the unbearable heat and the constant humming of the A/C, I’ve been away (every respectable expat cleverly plans the escape around the month of Ramadan) and I plainly couldn’t be bothered. So I took a holiday from the blog.

You know when you have so many things to do! ;)

Although summer IS certainly a quiet period things have nonetheless been happening. Amongst the ones worth mentioning is that the anniversary of my move to Oman has come and gone, yes just like that! September 15th 365 days later!

I’ll try to dedicate a post to the highlights of the past year soon.

Other events include an impromptu holiday to Egypt which saw us experiencing the worst flight of our lives (you know that the plane you are flying on is old when bits fall off the emergency door during flight (and one of the pilots alerted by the alarm comes out to check it and sort it out.. uh?), you still have ashtrays on the armrests, the seat covers are ripped and hanging off the seats like old theatre curtains and you hear a worrying sucking noise through a whole by the emergency door as you glance at the wing and hope that this is not going to be your last landing!!!). The same holiday also saw me slashing my foot open in the attempt to try out kite surfing (no, honest it is good fun) and believing for 24hrs that my iPhone and my designer sunglasses had been stolen respectively from my bag while in a bar and from my hotel room on our last day of the holiday (just to find out that one was carelessly thrown into the suitcase while packing at 3am in the morning and the other had somehow gone walking around the bar and found its way back to my Regional Manager who lives in the area .. so while I write my iPhone is still on holiday in Egypt until the boss brings it here on his business trip at the end of September).

Therefore things do happen! Just I have had no energy to write about it. Summer has truly worn me out so while you are dreading the long winter already announced by the first few cold days and the usual rain here we are very much looking forward to it and we are already starting to feel the bliss. Lots to look forward to.

The end of Ramadan (tomorrow is the last day) marks the beginning of the new winter activities, I start working and the good weather will see us beach bumming for the next 8 months. J

Amongst the projects for this winter we are back into the idea that owning a boat is a good one so today we went to test one out at sea with a friend and we were rather pleased with the experience (a glimpse of it on the side). So watch this space.

The busy season is starting again…and let me add: at last!