Red Sea Palace Jeddah

... was pretty much confined to the dates market, the gold souq (I wanted to sell some rings) and an enormous open-air market called the Heraj. Some areas sell used clothing, used furniture, used appliances, and other areas of it have new, but all are ready and waiting for haggling, at which I am terrible. I generally just select what I want, point it out to my husband, then leave and let him deal with the money end of it. The sad part of ...

Arrived at last on UK don't care if its freezing cold, if its snowing, if there are gales, even 5ft of snow I don't care.......I'm just happy that I am safe...didn't really want to say how much I was frightened the last few days and didn't want people to worry but the tears of relief when that plane took off I have never felt before ...

At airport she has booked me on the flight tonight from london so I will have to stay in London over night and get a flight Sunday. She was really horrible this morning never even told me about my flights she left the house with not saying a word gave my passport to the guard and told then not to give me it till I was through immigration!!!! Think she sent the most run down car she could find to take me ...

Well I hope I will be on a flight tomorrow Saturday, finger crossed as yet I have not been told anything, not been given my passport back with exit visa, tickets etc etc. But the agency assures me it will be OK tomorrow!! The last few days have been very scary for me and very worrying as you hear so many stories, I just don't know if I ever want to come back it has been an experience to say the least.......mmmmm might write a book ...

... But another good thing came out of yesterday, I was talking to the girl I was out with and she said why don't I apply for a job in a school out here as a Teaching Assistant. Wages are about £500/£550 a week, you get a furnished villa in a compound, you get help with return airfares, you get 10 days off at Easter, 10 at Christmas, 7 at Eid and nearly 3 months in the summer and you get paid for those as, also you are off Thursday and Friday and every evening. So that would mean I ...

Sorry I have not done much on my Travel Pod but not really got the heart or mind to do it maybe after a week or so I might!! Need to get a leats a few photos before the end of March. At least I can say it was an experience and it will make me stronger as a person.

... Though at a weekend like today is the start of a weekend it was midnight before they went to bed!!! and will be the same tomorrow night, then back to normal times. So 1 week I am going to have a Thursday off so I can have a good lie in on a Thursday (think I'll need it!!) and the next week a Friday off (that will be the beach day for me as nothing else to do on a Friday as it is like our 'old' Sunday where nothing is open!!! Oh and I forgot got my first midgey bite!!!

well had my first party here this weekend - it was awesome! great BBQ and some new friends. was all good fun. the beach is getting hotter - I'm still getting burnt even on my elbows this week - so I'm doing well. managed to get a couple of pictures of the area around my building and the shops it contains as well! hope you like them enjoy xx xx

... together. We're like crazy. If there's no flight, we juz gather in one flat watching Filipino movies or shows and start to criticize. I've realized... life is too easy. No reason to be sad and feel alone coz you have friends in the same situation with you so, you better smile. A life of a Flight Attendant is not that easy. We're not like what other thinks. Our job is not that easy as you think. We're not juz standing and making pa-cute -- NO!! Of course not! There's ...