The weekend of the 17th Nov falls as one of our SINGLE day weekends!!!! BOOOOOOOO
anyway, not letting that deter us, we pressed on to explore yet another Bar.......our colleagues invited us to Diera to a sports bar with a big screen, however we declined in order to check out the Vu bar at the top of one of the Emirates Towers!!!!
We can report that it is an extremely refined establishment with an assortment of cocktails and one could even be mistaken for thinking you had arrived at the set of COCKTAIL with tom cruise, as the bottles were flying and the shakers shaking the cocktails so professionally we thought we were in hollywood!
The prices certainly were hollywood, but its one of those places you just have to go and experience!
The view from the top was really spectacular........definately one for a return visit!
Hornet cried off early, was bundled into a taxi..........something tells me it was the Double Bacardi and coke that CJD ordered, coupled with fatigue.....but you will hear no complaints! CJD was joined by our colleagues to continue the Vu bar party......
Friday was yet again spent on the beach nursing wounds..........ok so they were headaches.
using newly purchased googles and a blow up LILO!!! we swam with the fishes, feeding the little stripey numbers, ready salted crisps.................well they were in salt water already, i dont suppose they noticed!!! All too quickly the sun started to go down and we headed back to our flat.
Had to clean and get ready for our first visitor from blighty..........Steve.

Fri and Sat 10/11 Nov..........
Went to a bar and a club to mark the start of the 2 day weekend!!! started at Boston bar or something like that......was Ladies night! SAY NO MORE......it is a con to draw the females (of which there appears to be a shortage out here) of dubai to fill the rest of the bar with men!! was a bit of a meat market, so a couple of FREE beers for the girls, and we scarpered to a club ZINC in the crown Plaza hotel on Shiek Zayed Road....was cool........have to say its the first time i have been clubbing in jeans and walking boots!!!!! even if they were expensive North Face boots......still the fluid flowed!!! should have had water a bit sooner.....insted of adding an order for rum and coke and a sambuca with the bottle of water! oh well...live and learn!!! CJD described it as ordering a big mac meal and a DIET COKE!!! hahahahah we suffered for it Fri.....all good plans and all that......spose to be on a road trip.......it was a struggle to trip out of bed let alone in the car!!!! sensible heads....4am finish....mmmm....lets hit the beach BY TAXI!!!
Fujairah beach park....very nice....towels right next to the water, Hawaiian Tropic basting, SORTED! water was again crystal clear with FISHES swimming by......was awesome. the haunting of the hangover set right in til tea time, but was kerbed by the occasional swim. the beach was busy, many ex pats.....and it really filled in the evening....
Back to the flat, just chilled...early night for trip to Fujairah.

Saturday.....alarms didnt go off, so an extra stolen hour of kip was had!!!! got packed and hit the road!!! HMMMMMmmmmm well....we hit the road but got a little tied up in the roads.....you see, sign posts are not what they ought to be......consequently 2.5 hours before we managed to get out of Sharjar and on to the road towards the east coast!!! drove through the desert and surprised ourself at how fast the journey went!! Still didnt see straight sand desert!!! all the dunes have small scrub like bushes on them, but the mountains on the east coast we impressive. just before Masafi (CJD informs me, is famous for its bottled water here) we drove through the "Friday Market".....lots of stalls lining the road selling carpets, fruit, blow up animals.....(YES BLOW UP ANIMALS!) and plants.........very quaint!
Continuing to Fujairah and tried to find a beach! yeah ok.....bit of a dissappointment actually.....not many nice spots on that side! shadowed by the mountains it was also a little cloudy......so we stayed on the road and decided to follow a random sign towards a WADI! I had my revenge.....the road turned to dust...and i made CJD continue....payback for the palm trip!!!!! when we got out of the car in the wadi we were struck by the TOTAL silence....was earie.....first time since we have been here that there has been NO noise.....couple of photos and headed back on the road....we basically drove in a massive anticlockwise oval around the mountains and got back on the road at Masafi and went back to Dubai, stopping at the market, briefly............was an eventful day...and we finally saw some CAMELS!!!!!! couldnt stop to take a piccy though.....i think they were racing camels...........still not seen the illusive wild ones......the search continues!!!!

Ok so i am slacking!!!!!!
Friday 3rd.....what did we get up too...basically sleep off a monster hangover.
Frequented a nice little Irish themed Bar called Waxy O'Connors on thursday night....was a little noisey and had the tiniest dance floor ever.....after a few sherbets we were up for a dance so asked a couple of ladies (obviously dressed for a night out) where the best place to move on to was!!!! we discovered Movenpicks JIMMY DIX! was ACE!
had a dance floor, a stage with a band covering all sorts of music.....cranberries, proclaimers and to be honest, the night is slightly faded with time...........was excellent! got in at 3pm and decided Friday was going to be a write off!
Ok so moving on to our first visit to the beach since arriving. It was a beach park called Al Mumzar. 30 Dirhams to get the car in and the nicest little bay......water was nice and warm and we chose a little shaded area to get our heads down and catch some sunlight.
Nothing else happened that weekend because it was just a 1 day break............back to school on the saturday!!!!!