Hello bloggers and- at last- a very warm welcome! We are in the beautiful, balmy city of Dubai in the unites Arab emirates and for the first time since October we are properly toasty- we landed this morning at 2am and it was 27 degrees!! Hurrah!! But to explain how we got here I'll backtrack a little...
After our visit to bruges we made our way to brussels where we caught the eurostar back to england. We had a lovely few days in London staying with my cousin and his lovely fiancé. Adam was an absolute trooper and carried my bags and jacket from Waterloo station to Piccadilly to London bridge and back again-all without the slightest grumble ( I was grumbling enough for the two of us! The novelty of wearing a cast wore off after about thirty five seconds!)
We cruised through the British museum and soaked up some serious history, then strolled over to covent garden where we had a very disappointing sandwich but heard some excellent buskers and then went and saw the lion king on the west end. It was absolutely amazing- the songs, the dancing, the costumes- absolutely breathtaking ! We have seen a few shows during this trip- we will rock you, the phantom of the opera and now the lion king and I really think it takes the cake- I highly highly recommend it!!!
Australia day was spent very quietly but marked all the same with a six pack of fosters beer and some Chinese takeaway- not the most Australian of meals but it did the job!!
Once we had squeezed all we felt we could from the big smoke of London we again returned to oxford for the third time this trip and had a lovely few days with my grandad. We didn't get up to too much, we explored the oxford castle and did a tad bit of shopping but mainly just relaxed and made the most of our time by enjoying our time.
On Saturday we made the last of our moves within the uk and went to bicester to hang out with my aunt and three awesome cousins. I absolutely love the two days spent there- 'we talked and drank and played darts (well, the boys played- I watched from the sidelines and made encouraging comments). These two days made it all the harder on Monday morning to say goodbye to family, friends and to Europe, a place that has been so SO good to us since october. But still, whether we liked it or not goodbyes had to be said, and a plane had to be boarded and in no time at all we were zooming out of heathrow bound for Dubai.
Initially I was a bit impartial about coming to the UAE, it wasn't that I didn't want to come, it's just that I didn't know enough about the place to have a burning desire to visit, but wow am i glad we did! It's great here-not only because of the beautiful warm weather but, well it's just awesome! It's really unlike any other place that I've visited- it's so new and shiny and impressive! But there is also a real long standing sense of history and culture here- makes for a really interesting mix. We wandered about today just getting the feel for the place, visited a gold souk or two(did a little shopping!) and watched the fountain display outside the burj al Arab- absolutely great!
But now alas I must close this blog and get some shut eye- we didn't get to our hotel until 330am this morning and, in a blind attempt to ward off jetlag got up at 9- so now it's 1035pm and my eyelids are drooping!
I hope everyone reading this is happy and well
Love
Lauren the landing gear and Adam the al Arab
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