Our week in Baku
We attended a wonderful concert by the Azerbaijan National Philharmonic Orchestra in this purpose built building – it was very sumptuous and ornate inside with gilt edged chairs and marble everywhere. At interval the...
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Brilliant Baku
Our first trip to Azerbaijan Our first experience of a colder climate but bright blue skies accompany the bitter wind! Statues abound at every block and in front of every other building, mostly of...
Michelle’s Musing
My thoughts on our Arabian visit. I was excited to be visiting Saudi Arabia with awareness to respect the cultural ways of a country not long open to tourism and quite different from New...
Celebrating Ramadan
Ramadan Kareem We are in Saudi Arabia during the month of Ramadan, incredible to be here at the birth place of Islam during this very holy month. Ramadan is all about self-discipline, introspection, sacrifice,...
Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Jeddah.
A fantastic racing weekend at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix….very different to our 1st GP in Bahrain. The entire CCJ (Corniche Circuit Jeddah) area is HUGE, we walked just over 20,000 steps on Friday...
Bahrain Bits and Bobs
Some musings… Bahrain is a beautiful city and the people are friendly and very accomodating of tourists who don’t know what they are doing i.e. us! I want to jot down some observations that...
Bahrain Fort
Qal’ At Al-Bahrain Fort We had read a lot about this fort, which is a 16th Century Portuguese fort on the sea front, but more incredibly the site underneath has been settled for thousands...