Ko Samui Airport – very pretty! After virtually no sleep at Andy’s, I was up just after 5am to walk down to Hammersmith and onto the Tube to Heathrow. Again. A virtual repeat of my trip earlier this year. My flight to Abu Dhabi was delayed slightly, but was enjoyable. My only quibble was the [...]

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Just a quick hour or so in the international airport in Abu Dhabi on my way to Bangkok. Got to love free wi-fi. Etihad have been superb so far – lovely plane from Heathrow to here with really good films and stuff to watch. Next post from Thailand. Probably. Depends when I next get wi-fi!

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I woke early the following day to be taken around Dubai in a minibus. Breakfast was included in my “rent” and was quite passable. I’d really wanted to go to Wild Wadi, the water park, but didn’t meet anyone at the hostel to go with – until I was waiting for the minibus to arrive [...]

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And on to number 14 – Dubai, another one-night stop. You know, I’m not sure if this is a country, a state or a region. It’s one of the United Arab Emirates, a group of recently-rich oil states which are spending their money predominantly on property development to try and entice tourists in. I arrived [...]

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