Horizon Chasing
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Khor Fakkan and Snoopy Island
…which sounds like the title of a B-movie. Fujairah is a small Emirate with a large port. Possibly the biggest container port? One of the biggest anyway. I often sit with a G&T and shisha in the Hilton bar on the beach in Fujairah (like you do) and can see a vast line of freighters…
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The Last Land Rover Defender
I wrote a piece for the Expedition Portal website the other day on the building of the last-ever Land Rover Defender. I’m quite pleased with it. Here it is; http://expeditionportal.com/the-last-land-rover-defender/
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Exploring Fujairah
Fujairah is a small Emirate with a flat coastal plain surrounded by mountains. I had a quick run out last weekend into northern Oman which is geographically much the same, and then the other day had a drive up into the hills to the west of the city (town?) to Hatta oasis. It’s a plateau…
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The contrast between Cairo and Fujairah
The contrast between enormous, sprawling Cairo and tiny, blooming Fujairah is huge – and not just in the physical size (Greater Cairo’s population is well over 20 million, the Emirate of Fujairah is around 100,000). As an expat one feels much less under scrutiny in Fujairah, much less an item on the morning’s cabaret, and…
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A new desert
For me, the draw of Egypt is the desert; its space, its history and its ecology. In contrast to my previous, optimistic, post, it became clear towards the lag-end of 2015 that the Egyptian desert, or at least the ‘real’ Sahara, (rather than the bits immediately west of Cairo) was not going to be opening up…
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Desert reopening slowly?
Amidst all the hiatus of Russian airliners blowing up (or not) there has been a speck of good news for the Egyptian tourist industry – the Egyptian Sahara, heretofore off-limits thanks to insurgency and the military’s reaction to it, *may* be slowly re-opening. A friend went out with a group of locals recently into the…
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