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29 December 2023
Mud houses After a breakfast of muesli which I had brought along from Kuching, we headed out for a drive around 0830. We went on in search of some nice traditional mud houses and found some good ones south of Wadi Najran. Text continues after this gallery. Unfortunately, the Al Ukhdud archaeological area but […]
28 December 2023
I’m adjusting to local time still and woke at 0330. I managed to doze till 0700 to prepare breakfast of leftover curries, steamed in the motel’s pot. We hit the road at 0915 on our way to Najran with via Wadi Lajab. The road got windier as we headed inland and we reached Wadi Lajab […]
27 December 2023
Getting to Farasan Having retired around 1900 and with 5h difference with Malaysian time in my body clock, I woke at 0100. I managed to doze till the alarm at 0400. We had been advised verbally to have the car join the ferry queue at 0430 (but officially 0530 report time on the ticket) for […]
26 December 2023
Flying to Jizan I woke at 0230 after 5h30 of sleep that wasn’t very deep. I tried to doze some more but gave up at 0330, opting to stay up. At around 0620 I summoned a ride to the airport. The driver, had trouble locating me at first and it got a little stressful. Fortunately, […]
25 December 2023
Standby flight Having slept around 2200 last night, I stirred around 0400 and got out of bed around 0630, an hour before my alarm. I made it to the 0800 from KL Sentral which got me to Kuala Lumpur International Airport Terminal 1 at 0900 (it got to Terminal 2 at 0845). When things go […]
27 July 2023
North Nicosia With no natural light in our room, we were rudely awakened by my daily 0700 alarm. Then my hope to doze for a few minutes were dashed with problems with a tenant’s garage door at home. Our hotel supplied an awesome breakfast and soon after that, we departed for a walk on the […]
26 July 2023
Above: People dining on Farenomeni Square. Today we return to “the south” or the Republic of Cyprus. We departed our lovely apartment in Gazimagusa’s old city around 0930 for the 1h drive to Ledra Palace Crossing. We managed to find parking without too much difficulty or circling around. Once parked, we waited for the car […]
25 July 2023
Ancient city of Salamis Our plan for the day was to go to the ancient city of Salamis as early as possible, then swim in the evening. Information on Salamis’s opening hours were hard to find but I guessed it would be 0900. Getting there soon after 0900, I noticed that it was 0800. While […]
24 July 2023
Above: Abandoned hotels run for kilometres along the waterfront where we swam. Moving to Gazimagusa We wanted to leave our Dipkarpaz accommodation late morning so that we’d get to Gazimagusa and not have to wait to enter our next accommodation. However, a power outage at breakfast meant that we’d be without any fan or air-con […]
23 July 2023
Kantara Castle Today we move on to Dipkarpaz Peninsula, which is the north-east tip of the island. Google Maps suggests that it would be a 30 min side-trip to add-on the Kantara Castle but we already knew that they’re too optimistic with travel times on the windy mountain roads. We had taken things easy this […]