John & Tracy Travels

2007-05-27T07:46:00.005-07:00

John and Tam......chilling out in the 40 degree arabian night air!!! Looking GOOD BOYZ!!!

Beach Party

2007-05-27T07:39:00.001-07:00

Susie and Joost up close!!! Before the fully clothed dip into the sea.....

Dinner Shiraz

2007-05-27T07:34:00.000-07:00

Dinner at Shiraz with Adi, Faryl, Sohaib,Fareed, John and I. Fabulous evening!!- thanks for organising Adi!!!

Shangri La

2007-05-02T08:21:00.000-07:00

Lunch at Al Haasan simply breathtaking scenary out over the infinity pool into the Arabian Sea beyond!!!

2007-04-10T04:12:00.000-07:00

John and I went out boating with some mates to BK about 10 km's down the coast from Muscat, and comprises of s series of inlets from the sea surrounded by mountains - its quite stunning!! Note my jetsky prowess!!!!!

2006-12-15T01:09:00.000-08:00

John at the beach at the Al Bustan. The weather is so stunning now, between 22 to 28 degrees!!

2006-12-15T01:05:00.000-08:00

John, Fareed and Snow Queen at Bed Supper Club

Bangkok

2006-12-15T01:03:00.000-08:00

Celebrating my birthday at BED!!! Thats red bull in hand by the way - WHEEEE gives you Wings in the City of Angels!!- english translation of the thai word-Bangkok.

2006-12-15T01:02:00.000-08:00

Me, John Mehreen and Fareeh at BED - Bangkok!!!

2006-12-15T00:59:00.000-08:00

Me and my friend and collegue Mehreen at "Bed Super Club" Bangkok, celebrating my birthday. Dinner is served literally on BEDS in a recreation of a snow station, which doubles up as a supper club cum night club - very GROOVY!!!

2006-12-15T00:52:00.000-08:00

John downtown Bangkok, on our shopping spree 5 day visit to the city. Primary reason for our trip was to celebrate my birthday on 2 Dec 06!! Had to get out of Muscat to some smog, grit and grime, taxi's people and nightlife - Bangkok served all of our requirements and provided much needed respite from our "beach resort" life style of Muscat.

Muscat Oman Temp

2006-11-13T08:55:00.000-08:00

Just if you were wondering what the temp was like in Oman. Here is the average yearly temp in Celsius for Muscat.

Weekend Away to Dubai

2006-11-02T07:53:00.000-08:00

Me and John at the Jameira Souk for dinner, this kiss was preceded by a big fat fillet at the Meat Co. coupled with a bottle of Klein COnstantia Sav Blanc, just like home hey!!!

Me and John at the Beach at the Jumeirah Beach Club Hotel, we had the best lunch, yes bacon and banana pizza was ordered, no problem. Joost was with us, but curly tops was the camera man in this shot.

Boys at Dinner Party

2006-11-02T07:21:00.000-08:00

Dinner Party at our house last week. All the Boys captured on film, this was at the beginning of the evening whilst they were still looking pretty!! Totol guests for the evening mounted to 10 - lots of fun and " naghtschpeelen" was had by all

Jaguar S-Type

2006-09-25T20:12:00.000-07:00

As some of you know a while back Tracy and I bought a Jaguar S Type - Tracy has christened the car "the SHAG". Here she is outside our flat, a real beaut 4 litres of power, good for dodging all and sundry around the roads here!!

Liezels Party Pics

2006-05-27T04:36:00.000-07:00

Liezels gone back to South Africa and we had a party at the PDO golf club for her.

It was all good fun and Tracy and I stayed out late for a change. We will miss you Liezel!

Dubai Visit with family

2006-05-13T03:42:00.000-07:00

John and I at the Dubai Marina, said to be the largest man made marina in the world. The growth, development and properity in Dubai is palpable. Its like a gold rush, except its fuelled and financed by a souring oil price.

We took Greg and Bronnie to Bandar Jissat, just outside of Muscat. This has to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. The beauty is so different to South Africa, but gorgeous nonetheless!!!

Valentines

2006-02-16T22:11:00.000-08:00

We had a wonderful Valentines Day! Tracy is looking lovely with her designer dress . The Chedi was excellent and we had a lovely time.

More Oman Pics

2006-02-16T21:53:00.000-08:00

Our trip to Sur was only for one day. This pic of the lighthouse was probably the best scene in Sur. The turtles were very beautiful though but we decided for the sake of the turtles not to take pics of them.

On our way back from Sur we drove past a bakkie with two camels in the back. This is fairly common and camels are very expensive. We thought this was the cutest thing we'd seen in a while.

Christmas Pics

2005-12-27T22:15:00.000-08:00

We wish you a merry christmas and a Happy new year.

This is one of the christmas parties that we went too on Christmas Day.

We would like to thank Bob the host for inviting us to his house. It was a wonderful time and enjoyed the occassion.

Liezel was also there she's the one taking the pic.

To everyone we hope you have a wonderful new years bash.

Oman Fort Pics

2005-12-04T05:58:00.000-08:00

Some old forts that we went and had a look at. Very interesting to see all the old guns and bullets. The forts were very pretty inside but I wouldn't have wanted to have been thrown in the dungeons.

Some pics from the Yacht Club Beach. The little Island in the background is called Cat Island.

2005-11-25T06:36:00.000-08:00

Hello All,

Here are some more pictures from our Thailand adventure.

House Proud

2005-11-17T05:39:00.000-08:00

As house proud parents we thought we would bring you some more pictures of the house with the new improved decorations. Enjoy!

Something of Thailand

2005-11-12T03:45:00.000-08:00

Our hotel view from Holiday Inn in Bangkok. Bangkok as you'll see is massive.

We stayed only one night in Bangkok. No this is not the song but apparently there is a new raunchier version out. I haven't heard it.

We did the Tuk Tuk and the PatPong experience. You'll learn if you ever go to Thailand that everything is about 50% off their opening offer and in some cases like patpong even worse.

These are condiminums that foreigners can own in Bangkok. Foreign ownership is a bit of a grey area with people using companies to buy houses through 49% ownership stakes and the remaining stakes being ceeded useless on incorporation.

I think it's going to be interesting what happens over the next few years around this foreign ownership issue.

The water on the river is dirty as hell but other than that we enjoyed our short stay in Bangkok. I don't know if I would have liked to have stayed there for more than two nights. Luckly we only stayed there for one night.

This is a Tuk Tuk we drove in. The guy was very friendly and ended up taking us to the more expensive joints in town. We thought something was weird when he didn't try to over charge us. We found out later that the places he took us to were basically rip offs.

Anyways we didn't pay him for the fare because he disappeared and maybe we broke even. Hey I like to keep a positive spin on things.

More pics of Thailand to come.

John

Thailand With Love

2005-11-06T10:41:00.000-08:00

Hi Folks,

We're back from Thailand and I will have pictures up really soon. We also bought a disposable camera and have some nice clear pics that we will get scanned in. So our picture quality will be vastly improved.

Anyways we're safe and sound back in Shatti Al Qurm.

John & Tracy

Ramadan Tomorrow

2005-10-04T01:05:00.000-07:00

This is me (John) just outside the Al Bustan before we drove home. I don't have to many good pics of me going around but this at least tells you I'm still alive.

Those trees are also really interesting. Yes you can walk around with shorts in Oman, just don't do it in the mosques.

Tomorrow is ramadan. So it's going to be a very new experience for Tracy and Me. I'll let you know how it goes.

John

Tracy at the Al Bustan

2005-09-24T00:13:00.000-07:00

Finally got a pic up.

So we're having a great time in Oman.

This is Tracy at the Al Bustan. She's drinking water mind you as it's in the morning. The weather was actually a bit warmer than usual (49 Degrees) and our airconditioning in the car broke on the way back to the house.

Al Bustan was full of old people and Germans when we went on Friday.

The beach was very beautiful but we were told that there were jelly fish at the moment and the water has green algey.

Needless to say we had a good time and relaxed. I'll get the rest of the pics up later.

John