salalah anyone? 
so i’m watching the BBC weather report, yet again wondering why their weather people dress so shabbily, considering the 150 plus quid per tv the entire UK population is held ransom to if they want to own a tv set…….
and the guy goes thru the gulf countries:
kuwait – hot as fuck.
dubai – not quite as hot as fuck, but humid as fuck.
saudi – more of the fucking same
salalah, oman – 24C
baghdad – hot and dangerous as fuck.
……………….. hold on !
24C ?!?!?!?!
in the middle of summer ???
wtf am i still doing here?
so i got onto wikipedia, and started researching.
at the start of summer i was planning a short trip to beirut, with the sole intention of researching the country as a potential base of operations. i must admit tho that the taxes, and living costs i heard about was dampening my enthusiasm about beirut, but it had so much else going for it.
i’ll still be going there, because i figure the best thing i can do to help the locals is spend money there at a time when no one else will be going. i wont get into my beliefs about humaintarian organisations and their relief fund usage right now, especially since immediate relief is what theyre good at,…. but i believe making a difference happens on a small scale, like finding a mom an pop restaraunt that might be struggleing and eating there exclusively during your stay, or a family run hotel that needs the customers, etc.
anyway, back to oman.
its green!
i didnt know that,….
and yeah the BBC didnt fuck up….. it really was 24C there yesterday.
its a bit humid apparently, something like 89% humidity….. but with 24C it cant be that bad can it?
and it seems to have kind of an odd and very colourful history spanning thousands of years.
and theyre “Ibadis” which is a sect of islam that i never heard of before.
all in all its gotten me really curious about the country, so if anyones been to muscat or salalah ( hehehe gotta love that name), do drop me aline and tell me what its like, where to go, what to eat and what to see and do there.
if you live there even better, lol you’ll be my second international reader that i know of
how expensive is it to live there?
and i guess the one question i cant seem to find an answer to,…. was your coast hit by the tsunami? ,…… dunno why, but that questions been bugging me all day.
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