A quick look on Google Maps tells me that it would take me just over three days to drive to Dubai. Lou is out there and it really isn’t her kind of place. Not mine either by the sound of it. Hubris personified. I like it much more when people integrate with nature rather than trying to supercede it. There’s nothing natural anywhere near that place that hasn’t been brought there and then manicured to within an inch of its life. Apart from the insects. They are out eating the rich and poor alike, indiscriminate.
It would be quite a drive. Through Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Serbia, then through Bulgaria to finally get to the coast in Turkey. Skirting the north of Syria then South through Mosul and past Baghdad until the speed cameras seem to return around Kuwait and Bahrain as you come down the isthmus to the UAE. “What the hell are you doing driving here from the UK sir?” “I’m visiting my girlfriend.”
Twelve days of driving at just 6 hours a day so there is time to look at the places. I’d do it if I had to or if I was paid to, but obviously not just for a jolly. Nice to look at it though. I’m still envious of Lou as there is loads of world still to see and the particularly varied Extreme E work seems to have dried up for now, more’s the pity.
I’m back on the invigilating train momentarily. Best remember to invoice. They still owe me from some training in November. My admin white out has been all encompassing. I could organise a drive to Dubai and back with accommodation and routes and boats etc and have it done in an hour or so. I can’t seem to do my tax or send an invoice.
Lou will be back in two days. I’ll probably see her early Feb. And if things go according to plan there will be hot springs in Hungary.
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