Crowne Plaza Muscat

... us up was not there. We waited for half an hour before calling the company, who then took another HOUR before a hotel driver showed up. We arrived at our hotel, the 'Al Bahjah' and passed out for 14hrs. <br><br>So now it's 8:17am here, 11:17pm in Ontario, Canada and 12:17pm in Japan. We had a lovely breakfast of pita bread, refried beans, feta cheese, yogurt and salad. Oli's guitar is still MIA and nobody from the company has contacted us. I feel like an alien. <br><br>-M <br><br><br><br>

... same feeling as the first explorers to set off onto a never crossed ocean and, months later, sight land for the first time. Natalie would have dismounted and kissed the warm asphalt if there had been room on her side to get out. And was the end of our adventure. We had a lovely picnic in the cool mountain air, with a spectacular view back down the route we'd come. To celebrate, Callan had his first stand-up pee in the great outdoors. Not a bad place to do it, looking down ...

... which the group are now learning. I have made some very wearable beaded jewelry, which I may even continue with. The gym is only three floors directly above us so we have ensured we visit most days, and the passenger choir to which we have both been going is this afternoon doing its performance. The entertainments' manager , Gary, has boundless energy and enthusiasm as well as being a incredibly ...

... not been too happy with the heat. And this is their winter! (Although it has been quite warm by all accounts) Hopefully it's just a case of her acclimatising. Will she be ok for school tomorrow? As the day wore on this was not the case! She definitely won't be going to school! She seemed to just get more hyperactive the more tired she became! We made it to the beach in the evening thought and this seemed to ...

... hit Muscat and wiped out a great deal of roads and trees. The building of new roads has been slow, but you can actually drive along parts of it, at your own risk. The roads are tarred and then diverts off road, only to come back onto the tarred road. We arrived at the sink hole, which was created by a meteor many years ago in the middle of rocky, sandy terrain. There is no way of tellling how far this sink hole goes down ...

Oman has been an adventure, especially as I have never been to the Middle East before. Oman is a beautiful country with plenty of culture as well as the majority of the mod cons available these days. Have been staying in Muscat but exploring other areas such as Nizwa complete with fort and modernised souq, the abandoned old towns at Tanuf and Izki, the beautifully restored fort at Jabrin as well as venturing onto the ...

... me to Muscat and back in one 24-hour period. The buck stops here. I told him I'd be fine in Hatta, and just hang around till morning when the buses started running again. As it turns out, this was (eventfully) not to be. I was sitting around by the bus stop, wondering what to do next, and wondering how much the gravel would hurt to sleep on, when a police car pulled up. I looked up. "Hi," I said. "Let me see your passport," said one of the ...

... celniky. Jelikoz jsem si v Omanu zakoupila lahvinku dobreho moku a dle novyh EU reguli taska nebyla radne zalepena-uzavrena, nechteli mi ji dovolit vziti do letadla a rekli ze ji tu musim nechat. Plan B byl batoh znovu odbat. Odlet jsem mela za 50min na nejvzdalenejsm terminalu,ale vse se povedlo. nic se nerozbilo Teplotni sok, jsem zazila jiz pri nastupu ve Frankfurtu, jelikoz sme museli jet busem do letadla a to same v Praze. Ale zatim prezivam a aklimatizuji se.

... think i burnt my hand alittle picking up the sand. The water that comes up to shore is really warm too. I guess it has to be from baking in 41 degree sun all day. Ramadan has started, so it's really hard to experience the cuisine here. But we'll see how things go. -Rob