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3 July 2010
Early Start I woke at about 4:30am due to my body clock being on Colombo time (2.5 hours earlier). I messed around until about 7am and took a sustaining breakfast of fuul at a nearby cafe … the Lebanese version here is different from the Yemeni. For a start, the broadbeans are mixed with chickpeas […]
2 July 2010
Bad start in Colombo I woke nice and early and showered for my 2 flights, the first being Emirates at 1005 to Dubai and then connecting to Beirut. I couldn’t find a taxi to the airport so took a tuktuk … which took 1 hour. It wasn’t hot but it was the early morning traffic […]
17 November 2008
I was pleased to see the back of Aden and its humidity … give me the cool dry highland … I love Sana’a at 7000 ft. On the road from Aden back to Sana’a it was interesting to see how men should pee in Yemen. Well, I had known this before but had somehow forgotten. The […]
16 November 2008
On paper (or in a guidebook) Aden may seem to have quite a few attractions but there’s not much to see apart from the Aden Tanks. Of course, there’s beer (which isn’t quite me) and the beach. Text continues after this gallery. For some reason we chose the difficult way to go swimming […]
15 November 2008
Above: We bought three seats at the back (3rd row) for the both of us. So there were only nine people including the driver in the Peugeot estate. We took a shared taxi down to Aden in the afternoon … the port city was part of the British empire and has a very different feel […]
14 November 2008
We were worn out from our travels and spent a bit of time resting in bed in Taizz. We wandered around the market for the rest of time. Most noticeably were the fluoro-pink drinks that were being sold. I think they are strawberry shakes made from strawberries grown in Chernobyl!
13 November 2008
In the 14th Century, Taizz was described by the famous Arab traveller Ibn Battuta as the largest and most beautiful city. Today, it is the third largest in Yemen. We came over from Zabid in the afternoon for a 2 night stay.
13 November 2008
Having had such a great day yesterday on the bikes, we wanted more. We had heard that it was market day at the next town and that would make a nice little outing. But while waiting to go I wandered around Zabid a little first. Text continues after this gallery. Once at the […]
12 November 2008
Marie had this idea that we could go to the beach near Zabid. It isn’t the most common thing to do in Zabid but what the heck! We’ve both been here before so why not do something different. I checked with the guesthouse whether it would be OK for Marie (being female) to swim at […]
11 November 2008
After several false starts, Marie and I finally left Sana’a today bound for Zabid via Hudayda in a pigou (Peugeot) shared taxi. Zabid is reputedly the hottest place on earth. I have awful memories of my last visit in mid-summer … it was so hot and the power was off … no air-con then. And […]