We've been in the UK for over a week now. Is great to get here especially because this will be our home for the foreseeable future! Spent a day in London doing paperwork with our teaching agencies and signing up for national insurance numbers and bank accounts, so we are starting to feel like we live here, despite having no home yet.
We've been in Scotland since last Wednesday staying in the very beautiful Edinburgh and have had a great introduction to Scotland with evening whiskys, haggis (it's actually okay tasting so long as you don't think about what its made of!) and an absolutely brilliant wedding last Saturday complete with kilted guests and fantastic ceilidh dancing all night. I even got my first ceilidh bruises on my arm, which I've heard is compulsory in order to say you' ve really danced your heart out!
We've been very lucky to be so warmly welcomed here by Holly and James (the newlyweds) and their lovely family and friends. Words can't really say how lucky we've been and it's been such a blast!
Next week will be back to London area to go out to job interviews (me, Anna) and for Pete to go meet his new class at his new school. We will be living in the Reading area in Berkshire, which is nice and close for trips to London, Oxford, Bath and many other lovely locations. As for after next week... who knows yet. We still have 6 weeks of holidays to go!!! Crazy but totally loving the extended relaxing and holidaying all over the place. We are thinking Eastern Europe, so watch this space...
Some Pics...
Some more pics..
Sorry, I did the titles for the pics. Pete
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Dubai!
We had heard Dubai was hot and we thought after the heat of South East Asia we would be a little prepared. We were wrong.
We walked out if the terminal (in Abu Dhabi) into the midday heat and had the energy drained out of us. It is so hot. We had to go back inside and then wait for the bus from Abu Dhabi to Dubai.
The landscape was not all that flash (funny that) and they were having a sandstorm, so you could not see very far in the distance. At one stage you could even look directly at the sun and see a very faint orange ball.
Anna was a little nervous about Dubai as she was unsure on how she was meant to act and dress. But it was fine. We spent the day at the (enormous) Dubai Mall where a lot of Westerners were. We had never seen anything like it. This place had an aquarium, an ice skating section and our favourite - a HUGE candy store. It had every kind of sweet you can think of (25 flavours of jellybean. We spent so long looking in there and then bought some white chocolate peanut butter cups. SO GOOD!
We spent the entire day at the mall and still did not see it all. But we were exhausted by the end of it so went back to the hotel.
The funniest part of the trip was being back at the airport in Abu Dhabi and going into the departure lounge. The security guard was very friendly and pointed us in the right direction when Anna needed the bathroom. I said that I would wait here for Anna. The security guard waited until Anna was out of ear shot and then asked me if I was going to let her go alone. I said - yeah, she'll be fine. He was blown away and could not get over the fact that I was letting my wife out of my view. He must of thought I was crazy!!
We walked out if the terminal (in Abu Dhabi) into the midday heat and had the energy drained out of us. It is so hot. We had to go back inside and then wait for the bus from Abu Dhabi to Dubai.
The landscape was not all that flash (funny that) and they were having a sandstorm, so you could not see very far in the distance. At one stage you could even look directly at the sun and see a very faint orange ball.
Anna was a little nervous about Dubai as she was unsure on how she was meant to act and dress. But it was fine. We spent the day at the (enormous) Dubai Mall where a lot of Westerners were. We had never seen anything like it. This place had an aquarium, an ice skating section and our favourite - a HUGE candy store. It had every kind of sweet you can think of (25 flavours of jellybean. We spent so long looking in there and then bought some white chocolate peanut butter cups. SO GOOD!
We spent the entire day at the mall and still did not see it all. But we were exhausted by the end of it so went back to the hotel.
The funniest part of the trip was being back at the airport in Abu Dhabi and going into the departure lounge. The security guard was very friendly and pointed us in the right direction when Anna needed the bathroom. I said that I would wait here for Anna. The security guard waited until Anna was out of ear shot and then asked me if I was going to let her go alone. I said - yeah, she'll be fine. He was blown away and could not get over the fact that I was letting my wife out of my view. He must of thought I was crazy!!
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