Oasis

Saturday 08 September

Naturally I didn’t just took the advice of people that have been here for a long time, but I had to learn the hard way about the danger of the summer heat.
I decided to pick up some sport activities again, and went running out here in my neighborhood. This is a perfectly healthy thing to do, but not at 11 in the morning during summer in the Middle East.
The temperature has risen to around 40 degrees around that time, and the humidity is killing. This obviously resulted in me, a fairly inexperienced runner and heavy smoker, coming back home completely wrecked. The rest of the day I was absolutely worthless.

That's two weeks ago now.
Veronica and I have found a much better way to spend the hot hours. We found a beach-club in one of the luxurious hotels, where we just enter in the morning like we are clueless hotel guests who come for their morning swim. Our true Oasis is the desert = Oasis beach hotel!
So far, we put up the show perfectly, they didn’t catch us yet.
The pool is delightful because its temperature controlled and the view from the 10th floor, is about the best view of the famous ‘palm island Jumeirah’ you can get without flying over it.







We did as well pick up sports activities, by joining Fitness First Gym.....