eturning to the London, where I called home for seven years twenty and more years ago, the first thing on my list is to get down to the Prêt à Manger on Brompton Road for my ‘fix’ of Langoustine and Rocket sandwich. We sit in the sunshine and watch the world go by. I’m fortunate …
“SENSATIONAL BUTTERFLIES” – AT LONDON’S NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Flowering plants and blossoming fruit trees make up a garden for hundreds of multi-coloured butterflies from South America and SE Asia inside a heated enclosure on the lawns of the Natural History Museum in London. Butterflies flit freely from plant to plant, and even land and rest …
OFF-ROAD 4WD TOURING DOWN IN THE GORGE OF WADI BANI AWF, IN OMAN I read about one of Oman’s quaint villages, Bilad Sayt, as “tranquil, with an antique old world appeal and its patchwork of terrace farming and traditional houses laid out against the rocky slopes”. But when we get to the top of a …
FRIDAY CATTLE MARKET AT NIZWA SOUK, IN OMAN We arrive at the Friday cattle market at the Nizwa souk to cacophony and colour and see robed Omani men standing in the centre of a small covered arena waiting for the procession of cows for them to bid on and buy. Others, sitting and watching, could …
ADVENTURE IN OMAN – ANCIENT, ARABIAN, BIBLICAL, SERENE Setting the scene for this exotica . . . up in the Al Hajar mountains of Oman. Located in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, , Jabal Akhdar “the Green Mountain” in Arabic, fits harmoniously into its natural habitat. un-block on, smelling freshly (and a little …