Muscat Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

One of the beauties of living somewhere new is the opportunity to try new things. One of the problems with living somewhere new is that sometimes you have no idea what these new things are. The other day we were in the supermarket (LuLu's - true, I swear) and I started looking beyond the boring carrots, imported apples and extortionate broccoli....

This morning was for packing as I hadn't done that yet!  Terri took Anita and I to the airport to catch our flight to Muscat, Oman.  We got to the airport with plenty of time so we grabbed some lunch there and just relaxed-read, knit, and chatted till we got on the plane around 3:30pm. The flight was fine and Anita and I were able to sit next to...

· Muscat, Oman · GMT +4:00hrs Lift off. Lift off I won't say too much about our flight(s) from Mumbai to Muscat apart from the fact that they required us to get out of bed at 4:00am yesterday morning, the earliest we've dragged ourselves out of any bed thus far. Although the flights themselves were relatively short, and the connection in Bahrain...

Went to the beaches today. They are actually really nice. I've never been to a beach where the sand was sooo fine. It's like the analogy of a 'hot knife through butter', your feel and hands just shift through the sand like nothing. The only downside, it's really hot. I think i burnt my hand alittle picking up the sand. The water that comes up to...

Right across the road from our hotel is the Mutrah Fish Market. It starts at 4am when the fishing boats return with their catch and closes basically when the catch is all sold. For sale were some massive fish and various other edible sea creatures. If you like there was a section where men, for a fee, will gut, scale and fillet the fish right on...