A new update at last! Well its been a good few weeks since my last rant, so what's been happening? Not necessary in the correct order but still living in the hotel apartment, its very convenient and cosy, but now been out and about looking for somewhere to call my home. Many people at work tend to live near Dubai Marina but its 1 hours drive each way every day so that's not for me. Looked at small villas at Al Reef, nice houses but not much else there at the moment, will be looking nearer town from this Sunday on. The old Nissan Sunny has now gone and has been replaced by a Toyota Camray, big saloon and very comfortable, brand new and I believe is a temp car until the Quasquia arrives? Nearly 3 ltr engine but no idea how much mpg or is it Ltrs/km as you never get out of the car at the garage (also everyone leaves the engine running for the AC), nice man fills the car up, washes the windows and takes your money - cash only, still so far 70AED only to completely fill up (that's about 13 pound). A few weeks ago had a friend came to stay for a few days and spent a fun day at Wild Wadi water fun park near Dubai. Also had my first haircut here, warning not for the faint hearted. Well sat down in the chair and the little "Bangladeshi" type man pumped the chair as low as it would go and then disappeared for about 5 min and came back with a set of steps to reach the top of my head! Asked him for a # 4 cut but that seemed to have got lost and hair was cut very very short but had an unexpected head massage and oil all for 2 pound, beat that on the IOM! Have just about recovered from a bought of "the runs" not sure what brought it on but 3 of us went down but could not identify anything in common except our accommodation (we don't eat there either), anyway just about recovered. Maybe its just getting used to the heat, the last week has been quite fearce with temperatures up to 50C and humid, thank goodness for AC. Work wish busy as always, lots of new projects, the latest a new city to be built next to Musaffah Port. Well that's a long ramble on and will try to do this every week, See you next time. John