InterContinental Abu Dhabi - Team Basketball 2010!!
Sunday, 28 February 2010
One final thing...
I nearly forgot!!! I won Best Muse for the Inter Hotel Basketball Championships 2010!!! We also won Best Kit!
Long over due images!
Me in Dubai, overlooking the Palm with Atlantis hotel in the background when I was there for Mick's birthday brunch.
Malaga.
Actual orange trees, growing in the middle of the street with fruit on them! I don't know if I've ever seen an orange tree before!
One of the tiny alleyways I was talking about. I went down this one, turned left and then found...
...This. Which just happens to be where the recommended tapas place was!(the one with the brown sign on the far left).
"Turret for sale"
After all of the shopping, I was feeling peckish. So I stopped here. Cute little bakery! The pastry I had was so good I swear it would be illegal in at least 12 countries!!
I saw the most beautiful stained glass window, tragically hiding away in the reamins of a disused market hall.
The fastest flowers I've ever seen!! (Called Mercedes in case you can't read it!)
One of the tiny alleyways I was talking about. I went down this one, turned left and then found...
...This. Which just happens to be where the recommended tapas place was!(the one with the brown sign on the far left)."Turret for sale"
After all of the shopping, I was feeling peckish. So I stopped here. Cute little bakery! The pastry I had was so good I swear it would be illegal in at least 12 countries!!I saw the most beautiful stained glass window, tragically hiding away in the reamins of a disused market hall.
The fastest flowers I've ever seen!! (Called Mercedes in case you can't read it!)Has it really been 2 months???!!!!
Wow, just logged onto here and realised that it has been 2 months since I last wrote! I cannot believe how busy I have been....time has flown by!
So I'm writing from Malaga, Spain. I'm here for a conference which starts tomorrow and is on for 3 days. I'm really looking forward to it actually! (Especially now that my 12 hours of travelling are out of the way!). Spent today wandering around Malaga old town, lovely town with gorgeous architecture! (will post the photos later) and the shopping is amazing! So cheap! The sales are still on, so I did pretty well to limit myself to a new handbag for 20 euros reduced from 180 euro!!!! I have also stocked up on the mandatory 3 bottles of spanish red wine to take back with me!
Oh, I nearly forgot, I got rained on! Ick! It was cold and everything!
The past few weeks have been pretty uneventful. I was in Dubai last weekend for a friends birthday and the usual socialising and work functions have been managing to fill my evenings and are making the weeks go even quicker!
I have been frustrated that I haven't been able to go to the gym for my classes for the pas couple of weeks. I have hurt my shoulder and will get the results of my MRI scan when I get back to Abu Dhabi next week. (aparently they think it is tendonitis, just making sure). It was feeling much better this week, until I played badminton at work (Nuwan and I won the mixed doubles tournament again!!!) and then went bowling for another friends birthday, and although I'm not back to square one, the shoulder has been feeling pretty fragile the past couple of days!
I've been planning the year ahead and it looks like it will be another crazy year ahead at work! I'm actually really looking forward to it. Plenty of exhibitions to go to, lots of events coming up in Abu Dhabi too, I'm already busy with the requests for formula 1 season! (Which is great!). Before we know it, it will be December and Christmas all over again!
I am trying to plan holiday time around my work trips! (Not as easy as it sounds, esp as there are so many places that I want to go to!). I think I have a lot of long weekends ahead of me this year. I want to go to Muscat in Oman (that is a weekend trip). I also want to go to Egypt (a long weekend trip). Then there is Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand again and, if I can possibly get away, I'd quite like to go to Jorden and the dead sea for the weekend too! I'm thinking that I may have to reassses my 2 year plan in the UAE if I want to fit all that in while I'm there!! That list doesn't include my annual trip back to the UK or any other unexpected trips!! Glad I signed up for every frequent flyer programme I could think of!!
Going full circle and coming back to now, I went to this lovely tapas place this afternoon. The lady at the hotel reception recommended it, said that she and her friends go there all the time! well, it took me an age to find it, the map made alleyways look like roads, so I walked past it 3 times! But it was worth it, just a shame I was on my own, if I'd had company I would've been able to try more of the food!! But the tortilla patatas (spanish omlette) and the croquettes jamon (ham and potato croquettes) were amazing, as was the tomatoes which were sliced and drowned in olive oil with garlic and parsley!! I was very impressed. It was nice to eat outside (20 degrees today) have a glass of cold beer and be able to walk to the shops and not be in a hotel! There are certain things I really miss about Europe!
Well, I guess I'd better go now, will try to upload those pictures and will try in vain to write again within the next month (I'm being realistic!!).
Take care and stay safe.
Jen.xxxx
So I'm writing from Malaga, Spain. I'm here for a conference which starts tomorrow and is on for 3 days. I'm really looking forward to it actually! (Especially now that my 12 hours of travelling are out of the way!). Spent today wandering around Malaga old town, lovely town with gorgeous architecture! (will post the photos later) and the shopping is amazing! So cheap! The sales are still on, so I did pretty well to limit myself to a new handbag for 20 euros reduced from 180 euro!!!! I have also stocked up on the mandatory 3 bottles of spanish red wine to take back with me!
Oh, I nearly forgot, I got rained on! Ick! It was cold and everything!
The past few weeks have been pretty uneventful. I was in Dubai last weekend for a friends birthday and the usual socialising and work functions have been managing to fill my evenings and are making the weeks go even quicker!
I have been frustrated that I haven't been able to go to the gym for my classes for the pas couple of weeks. I have hurt my shoulder and will get the results of my MRI scan when I get back to Abu Dhabi next week. (aparently they think it is tendonitis, just making sure). It was feeling much better this week, until I played badminton at work (Nuwan and I won the mixed doubles tournament again!!!) and then went bowling for another friends birthday, and although I'm not back to square one, the shoulder has been feeling pretty fragile the past couple of days!
I've been planning the year ahead and it looks like it will be another crazy year ahead at work! I'm actually really looking forward to it. Plenty of exhibitions to go to, lots of events coming up in Abu Dhabi too, I'm already busy with the requests for formula 1 season! (Which is great!). Before we know it, it will be December and Christmas all over again!
I am trying to plan holiday time around my work trips! (Not as easy as it sounds, esp as there are so many places that I want to go to!). I think I have a lot of long weekends ahead of me this year. I want to go to Muscat in Oman (that is a weekend trip). I also want to go to Egypt (a long weekend trip). Then there is Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand again and, if I can possibly get away, I'd quite like to go to Jorden and the dead sea for the weekend too! I'm thinking that I may have to reassses my 2 year plan in the UAE if I want to fit all that in while I'm there!! That list doesn't include my annual trip back to the UK or any other unexpected trips!! Glad I signed up for every frequent flyer programme I could think of!!
Going full circle and coming back to now, I went to this lovely tapas place this afternoon. The lady at the hotel reception recommended it, said that she and her friends go there all the time! well, it took me an age to find it, the map made alleyways look like roads, so I walked past it 3 times! But it was worth it, just a shame I was on my own, if I'd had company I would've been able to try more of the food!! But the tortilla patatas (spanish omlette) and the croquettes jamon (ham and potato croquettes) were amazing, as was the tomatoes which were sliced and drowned in olive oil with garlic and parsley!! I was very impressed. It was nice to eat outside (20 degrees today) have a glass of cold beer and be able to walk to the shops and not be in a hotel! There are certain things I really miss about Europe!
Well, I guess I'd better go now, will try to upload those pictures and will try in vain to write again within the next month (I'm being realistic!!).
Take care and stay safe.
Jen.xxxx
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