Ah Saturday...back to work.
First day of weekend spent lesson planning and obsessively flipping from Aljazeera to the BBC to CNN International to decide which was providing the best coverage of the morose events around the globe. Aljazeera won. Ended up watching an hour long program on the history of our fascination with fish - VERY interesting indeed.
Late night jaunt up to Muscat - two hour ride through the dark, vacant desert, arriving for a night of grand hotel bar partying. Expats from a cornucopia of countries the world over, locals, lots of booze (whiskey for me thank you very much), cheesy dance party music from 70's - 90's - drunken dancing, a few prying eyes, and a few hours of sleep before an early start of perusing the old Muscat Souk (market).
Friday - Ancient city of old Muscat - stop the car - run out to get a better glimpse of the Portuguese fortress on the bay - lean against the stone wall - burn stomach through shirt - take photo - run back to car. (Repeat steps for many fortresses, Palace of the Sultan, Gate into old city... etc). HOT!!!! HUMID!!!! With no air movement it resembles getting into a blazing hot car, windows up, doors locked... Needless to say you have to change your clothes a lot. In restaurants there are boxes of tissue on all tables - not for all the tears you may be shedding but to wipe off all the sweat. :-)
Afternoon spent in the mall. Air conditioned and great shopping to be had. Bought sunglasses - something I am never in short supply of, and a few other odds and ends that one really shouldn't be without.
A quick stop for a stock up on dates and curry paste and back down the cost into Sur.
All in all a good weekend - no beach - ran out of time lallygagging around the capital. Oh well. Next weekend.
So now it's Saturday, my Monday and the show goes on. Drinking coffee and preparing for my evening lesson in... 8 minutes?! Gotta run! Ciao!
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