Right, so I'm in Abu Dhabi and..
My most recent work project failed to get off to a flying start yesterday. Well, to be a fair the plane did too. On my way to Pakistan via the United Arab Emirates, my first flight was sat at Amsterdam Schiphol on the runway with engineering problems for 5 1/2 hours*. When we finally made it to our destination, I was greeted with the cheery news that there weren't any flights to Lahore for days.
Anyway, some quick wrangling later and I was granted a temporary stay in UAE. Hopefully I should be able to fly to Muscat (Oman) tonight in order to hop over to Lahore. My hotel is here certainly interesting. It's a rather pretty little oasis in the middle of a bloody great desert, and thankfully heavily air-conditioned. Being outside grants one a rather accurate impression of what it's like to be baked alive while someone fires small insects at your forehead with an air pistol.
The only other event of note so far has been becoming stuck in my room toilet for an uncomfortably long time. Not for the obvious reasons, but largely since the lock can apparently only be operated from the outside. I eventually gave up on being rescued and escaped by disassembling my cigarette lighter and using the metal bits to take the door handle apart. I now feel like the MacGuyver of conveniences.
Next stop, Oman.
* I'm going to have KLM's small, sensitive little orbs for this.
Anyway, some quick wrangling later and I was granted a temporary stay in UAE. Hopefully I should be able to fly to Muscat (Oman) tonight in order to hop over to Lahore. My hotel is here certainly interesting. It's a rather pretty little oasis in the middle of a bloody great desert, and thankfully heavily air-conditioned. Being outside grants one a rather accurate impression of what it's like to be baked alive while someone fires small insects at your forehead with an air pistol.
The only other event of note so far has been becoming stuck in my room toilet for an uncomfortably long time. Not for the obvious reasons, but largely since the lock can apparently only be operated from the outside. I eventually gave up on being rescued and escaped by disassembling my cigarette lighter and using the metal bits to take the door handle apart. I now feel like the MacGuyver of conveniences.
Next stop, Oman.
* I'm going to have KLM's small, sensitive little orbs for this.