Horizon Chasing
Thanks for dropping by. This is Sam Watson’s blog – sometimes writer for various magazines, traveller, writer, geographer, conservationist and itinerant scruff. Insta – samwatson4994 / X – SamWatson__ / Fb – Sam Watson
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Back in Cairo……
…back in Cairo – the city of a thousand faces, the City Victorious. Cairo the Red, seat of Mars…. all the epithets she has conjured since Roman times. Strangely, as I have spent more than ten years of my adult life there, a place that I almost call ‘home’. Just got back to the UAE…
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The Season of the Bee…..
…. hasn’t started yet. I went into Dubai with the Disco on a flatbed at the weekend to get the registration finished, to discover they’d given me the wrong form before Christmas. So another inspection and another form ensued. Then back to Fujeirah – the police station closed at 2.30pm so I reckoned that, getting…
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The Year of the Bumblebee?
Hoping to resume the application of cudgels to register Bumblebee the Camel Trophy Disco here in the UAE when payday happens (today!?). She still languishes in a friend’s garage here in Fujairah as she is not road legal. I went to check her out the other day and all is well – started first time,…
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Catchup!
Apologies for the absence over the Christmas period – things got a bit frenetic! Back in the UAE now after spells in Russia and Saudi, and, of course, home in Yorkshire in the UK. Events of note – not very many. I went on the Christmas Pudding Run over the Yorkshire Moors with the Land…
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Nepal again – and UAE faffery
So another run out to Nepal and time with Miles, Tom and the Land Rovers Overland team – a great bunch of guys. We headed out of Nepal this time to Pokhara, famed as a Gurkha recruitment centre, and then north up the Kali Gandaki gorge. Because it’s between Annapurna and Dhaulagiri it counts as…
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Incremental progress….
Finally, progress. After sundry faffing about with de-registering her in Dubai, Bumblebee the Camel Trophy Discovery is now almost legal here in Fujeirah. She passed the local equivalent of the MoT this last weekend, and now is ready to be registered and plated in about ten days. I have to pause the process as I’m…
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