{"id":132,"date":"2007-02-16T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/02\/16\/uae\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T09:00:43","slug":"uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/02\/16\/uae\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/gmc.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/gmc.html','popup','width=800,height=533,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/gmc-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" border=0\/><\/a>Shirls and I have taken advantage of her working in Dubai at the moment, and we&#8217;re in the middle of a cheap holiday break!<br \/>\nPersonally I think her getting me to come out here was just a ploy to see me on Valentines Day, but I guess I&#8217;ll forgive her that   \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nWe started our time out here by going on an overnight trip into the desert with Arabian Adventures.  Riding (and sliding) around on the dunes in 350bhp 4&#215;4&#8217;s was great fun, and I&#8217;ve got the piccies to prove it!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAfter our roller coaster-like ride, we stopped off in a natural hollow amonsgst the rolling dunes to camp for the night.  We watched a beautiful sunset, and sat around the campfire for some wonderful barbequeued food.  Once we&#8217;d finished, out came the shishas &#8211; remember what the caterpillar was smoking from in Alice in Wonderland?  The apple flavoured tobacco was actually lovely, and this is from someone who doesn&#8217;t like cigarettes!<br \/>\nHaving finally got to bed, we got a few hours sleep under the stars before rising to watch a sunrise that was even more stunning than the sunset was the night before.  After a wonderful cooked breakfast we headed back to Dubai, after a quick detour via an Oasis.<br \/>\nWhat a fantastic trip!  And we&#8217;ve still got several days to check out the Souks and the rest of the City&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/Shirl_dune.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/Shirl_dune.html','popup','width=800,height=533,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/Shirl_dune-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/dune_sunrise.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/dune_sunrise.html','popup','width=800,height=533,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/dune_sunrise-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shirls and I have taken advantage of her working in Dubai at the moment, and we&#8217;re in the middle of a cheap holiday break! Personally I think her getting me to come out here was just a ploy to see me on Valentines Day, but I guess I&#8217;ll forgive her that \ud83d\ude09 We started our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/02\/16\/uae\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UAE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}