My Travel Blogs
Peak Performance Dubai presents Desert Ski Competition March 23rd 2012
Desert Ski Competition In its 2nd year, the Desert Ski Competition sponsored by Peak Performance is back! As the weather gets a bit warmer and for some reason the wind is blowing a gale outside, why not get your weekend adrenaline fix with a bit of skiing or...
Annie Cummings – Help for Heroes Jordan Trek Challenge
Annie Cummings takes on Jordan Trek Challenge for Help for Heroes Help for Heroes is doing an amazing job for so many military families and my cousin, Annie Cummings has chosen to undertake the Jordan Trek Challenge to give something back to Help for Heroes. Some of...
Sarah’s Big Day
The Muppet becomes a wife One of the reasons for my trip back was that my good friend from Uni was getting married. Apart from the day I had landed the weather had been extremely pleasant, for England. The morning of the big day and it was raining! But apparently that...
Time to leave Palestine
Palestine and it's people have left a mark As with the way in, you need to give yourself plenty of time to get out of Palestine, across the Allenby Bridge and back to the airport to catch your flight, whether that is out of Tel Aviv or Amman. But the morning was a...
Summer Break
Sand Pit to The Big Smoke August 18th saw me embark on my 3 week break from the sandpit, for 2 weddings, a stag do and a few days in Houston. In between time getting to spend some quality time with my best friend and his family, including my godson Isaak who quite...
Inspirational companies in Palestine and a visit to Jerusalem
Mentoring truly inspirational companies in Rammala is an honour 4 days in and I discover there's bacon on the menu in the Movenpick Rammala!! And the chef made a really mean bacon, mushroom and cheese omellete. However, based on the long days, I had started...
Palestine during Ramadan. No problem……….
Respect for my Arab counterparts was growing After 3 days of semi fasting, my respect for my Arab counterparts was growing! It wasn't the lack of food so much as not being able to drink water. I usually consume about 4-5 litres a day and a couple of sneaky glasses in...
Palestine for a nice easy break!
Palestine for a bit of a jolly I thought! Wrong!! Up early to get breakfast in. It was assumed that there wasn't much chance of getting any food during the day so stocking up at brekkie was the idea. As it was the middle of Ramadan, there was literally nothing open...
Want to go to Palestine?
Ever been to Palestine? No. Want to go? Ok! I am all for trying new things and will usually say yes or OK to most things. Hence the headline of this blog post is taken from the conversation I had with Scot from T2VC. After seeing a presentation of mine, he saw the...
Camping by the Banyan Tree Ras Al Khaimah
5 star camping by the Banyan Tree RAK It was time to take Felcity, the Raptor out into the desert and see what she was made of . Nothing too challenging, just a nice easy introduction to the desert, duning and some Baja style speed cross country followed by a night...