So, I did a blog thing. Yesterday before work (and a bit last night, and again this morning) I set up a wordpress site, which is where you’ll be reading this. Prior to this update I’d done everything on Facebook as updates just for my friends, but I keep getting asked by others here to see it, and I figure one or two things I said might be entertaining outside my circle of friends, so here you go. Of course I had to do it the hard way, with hosting and such. I hope people enjoy it. Maybe it will inspire me to write more or travel more or both. I plan to go back into these posts and edit them to include photos, and maybe add some detail here and there.
Today is going to be a really long day. I’ve got a lot to do at work, then the guys are taking me out for a party/dinner. Around midnight I’ll come to the hotel, shower, change, pack and head to the airport. The flight is around 4am to Dubai, then a 1:45 layover and another long flight home. I really hope I’ll be able to sleep on the plane.
Last night we went to Vapour, a rooftop brewpub. I had a flight of beers including a Basmati beer, which actually tasted like basmati! It was very light though and not my style, so I wouldn’t order it again, but I was glad to have a few ounces of it. The others were an OK ale, a “premium” which I didn’t like, and a stout which was quite good. We also continued our trend of trying and sharing appetizers/tapas and had paneer tikka Zafrani, whose skewers were intermixed with bell peppers. We also had really amazing chicken tikka Hyderabadi, that were very juicy.
We also had Mutton Galouti Kebab, which was a tender patty on top of a triangle of thin bread. I tried eating it with a knife but the bread was tough and I decided it was finger food. We had asked for “less spicy” and got what we wanted.
A soccer match was on TV but it was Dortmund against someone else in Europe and no one was watching It was 1-1 and we remarked that soccer would be a lot more fun to watch with more scoring. Maybe they should make the goal bigger.
I walked back from Vapour which was about 3/4 mile in a straight line down 100 feet rd, which sounds silly until you realize it’s 100 feet wide. There’s an 80 feet rd too nearby.
Saving this and heading down for breakfast. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to provide another real update between now and the plane, but I’ll probably want to kill some time in flight so I may write something long then.