Well, last nights social event at Tower Links was ok. The club laid on food and I had a few games of Pool. One against Tony (my Oz friend) and two against Chris (a fellow Mackum who will also be teaching ICT). Then got a taxi back with Karen. Taxi’s here cost between 5 and 20 AED depending on time of day and where in the city you travel from and to. 5 AED is about 1 euro or 80/90pence. 20 AED is about 4 euros £3.60. So taxi’s are really cheap here, but the main problem is getting one. You have to collect numbers from drivers which are good as there is no central point which you can ring for a taxi from. Hence, getting one from our apartments can be a little tricky. On the whole during the day you can easily flag one down as were on the main route to the Hilton Beach Resort. But getting one in the evening we found tonight is difficult. So me and Tony set off for Carrefour around 8pm to get a few things. We decided to walk in the direction of Carrefour with the intention of being able to flag a taxi down along the way. We got about 5 mins out of the place when I managed to mis-step and yes you got it I had my first accident. I have a nice shiner across my left shin and I’ve slightly twisted my left ankle during the fall. But I’ll survive, it just annoyed me that I had managed to hurt myself yet again!

Anyway, we managed to flag a taxi down soon after and I hobbled around Manor Mall and Carrefour getting the bits and pieces I needed before getting a taxi back to the apartment. Now we know our way around a bit its getting easier to explain to the drivers where we live. But next week I’m going to go sort out car hire. It will give me my independence back a little more as although taxi’s are cheap, I wouldn’t want to be catching them on my own at night. So a hire car will be the first stage before my residency visa comes through and then I can buy a car of my own 

I was meant to go on the bus to Dubai today, but I was so tired when I woke up and felt a little sick with tiredness so I stayed at home and actually slept most of the day, so next weekend when I’ve got my car I’mj going to drive to Dubai to have a look around the place and maybe go to IKEA for a mattress topper for my bed!

Tomorrow, I’m going to have a lie in and then complete my unpacking as I now have coat hangers to hang my clothes up. Plus I have cleaning fluid to wash the wardrobes out first as their a little dusty. Might have a walk to the beach in the afternoon if its not too hot. Weather today reached around 45 degrees! So there’s no sign of it cooling down yet although humidity I think is dropping which is making the heat a lot more bearable! Need to get my membership to Hilton sorted next week so I can start going for a swim each day!

Off to bed now, got a bit of a jippy stomach. Everything I eat goes straight through me today.... but I guess short term its good for weight loss! LOL