Dubai

Ya! Dubai terminal three has free wi-fi internet. Status Report, first of four flights is down.

Dubai for reasons I'm not totally clear has most of there international flights leaving in the wee hours of the morn. For example my flight leaves at three am. Now as my last flight got in at six pm i have a few hours to sit ... and .... umm .... post a blog entry.

I need to avoid the huge duty free here, you can get cigarettes, whisky, wine, and chocolate here for way too cheep. Fortunate for me i don't take part in much of the above other then the chocolate but a few other travel mates are not the same, one seems to be drooling over the $100 21 year-old Glenfiddich. What my bane here is the two books stores here, thank goodness they don't have history or science sections, its mostly light reading.

Any way the battery on my little netbook is starting to run dry so I'll post the next chance i get ....