During our short stay in Jordan, we took some time out to relax in the Dead Sea. It happens to be at the lowest point on the earth at around 430m below sea level and is more of a lake than a sea as it is landlocked. It’s also very calm and with no wind, […]
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We’re now coming towards the end of Ramadan, which is a period of the year where Muslims fast during daylight hours for a month. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. In Dubai, this means that fasting times are from 4am to around 7:15pm each day. During this time, Muslims will not eat […]
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One of the top tourist attractions in Dubai is to do a desert safari. I’d always thought a safari was to do with animals, but this has pretty much nothing to do with animals (unless you count a 1 minute ride on a camel!). I’ve actually done this twice now, once before I moved to […]
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A few weeks ago, one of our friends organised a boat tour from Musandam, Oman. We were pretty excited by this, as it sounded very similar to some of the island hopping tours which we had done in the Philippines earlier in the year. We drove in convoy to Oman early in the morning, which […]
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If a warehouse full of trampolines of all different shapes and sizes sounds like a fun way to spend an evening to you, then you should definitely go to Bounce Dubai. We’ve been a couple of times and it’s a lot of fun, but extremely tiring! In Bounce, there’s a few different area. The main […]
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