Hotel Ramee Guestline Qurum Muttrah

... pulled the boat back into the water.<br><br>Just as I was lifting Freya onto the boat, not 2 minutes after Vaughn had left, there was a slight &#8216;ping&#8217; and the mast and mainsail dropped gracefully over the side. <br><br>Next came the handover of the motor cat. Thierry and I decided we&#8217;d take the boat out ourselves and get properly acquainted before we risked the lives of our families to our dubious nautical experience. A good job we did too. <br ...

... going?) I'm loading shopping in the basket that is on the handle...I pop in the bottle of juice we need...'oooh, what's this oth** juice...great, look Freya, it includes 8 vitamins...' [creeeak...] I look back and th**e is Callan on his back looking quite horrified! Any oth** time, and if I hadn't have seen Lee Evans I would have been so embarrassed but I was p**sing myself today! It made me feel bett**. I have to keep smirking to myself. Th**e w**e ...

... end up standing in the wrong queue for 10 minutes. Follow the next set of instructions and end up in the correct office but another wrong queue. Apologise as best you can for ending up in the 'Ladies Only' line. Move along to the correct queue.  Wait 5 minutes. Arrive at the reception desk and present the paperwork issued by your employer. Discover you are missing one vital form and need to go to another building. Join ...

... We got back to the hotel and saw people with Borders book bags and Starbucks bags so of course, we had to find this mall!  Anita and I got our knitting and cross stitch and headed out to this mall just by the airport.  Well, my definition is just a little bit different than those that gave us the directions!!!!  When we got there, the mall was busy but we made our way to Borders and camped out there.  I did buy only 4 books so I was proud of myself. :-)  Finally we got ...

... parked outside a nearby hanger. We were not sure if it was the one George W himself was using (there are 2 of them after all) but we did learn later on thanks to our satellite TV hotel room (and BBC World) that he was in the area on route to a meeting with Valddy Putin. · 0.145 Rial It is 0.145 Omani rials for a litre of petrol over here. That's about &euro;0.25 cents. That just seems an appropriate, albeit boring, observation ...

... up the search, and saw Dubai-Muscat was written on the windows. I went inside and started asking questions. Turns out the last bus of the day left an hour earlier! Nggg! Stupid airport. Stupid hidden businesses! I told Muhammad that it looked like I couldn't make it after all. He sent a message back telling me to come to the border (once again!) and Thayer, our friend who I met the first time I was at the border, would run me down to ...

... and grounds that could accommodate 20K praying people. Definitely worth the visit. I also went down to Muttrah - to the fish market and then the souk, which is the markplace where you can get all kinds of things, including touristy souveniers (like frankenscense). There were over 20 stalls selling gold jewelry (Jamal told me this is how Omani women saved money; also, Omani men are not allowed to wear gold, they must wear silver). I also saw the Al Alam Palace ...

Rather impressive, this natural harbor! Although occupied by Portuguese in the 16th century, the architecture of the city creates an authentic feeling of a classical Arabian world. From the port of Mina Qaboos, the Little Owl drove through Oman's exclusive residential district of Shati Al Qurum, and made a photo-stop at golden domed Zawawi Mosque. Her next stop, the narrow alleys of the Muttrah Souq, didn't hit ...

... since it was built in around 1970. It could very easily be used as a movie set for an Austin Powers film! I love it; Katie is a bit less enthusiastic. Anyway, we spent today driving around and seeing the sites of Muscat. Not a lot to see, but I'm regretting that we didn't plan on staying longer. There is supposed to be good SCUBA and the 4x4 off-road driving through desert canyons is supposed to be unbelievable! Anyway I have a feeling we will be back in Oman in the not too ...

... him on. We headed in the direction of Job's Tomb, which is about 20 miles from Salalah high in the mountains. The bus chugged along slowly, but we made it. Job (Ayoub Nabi in Arabic) is considered a prophet by Christians, Jews and Muslims. While at the Tomb a woman from our bus suddenly got very ill. You could not be in a worse place to get sick. There were no doctors with us and we were in the middle of nowhere. It was very frightening. Ali called for ...