Dubai

Sitting in an Irish bar in Dubai! it is 1:30 am, I just arrived after 6:30 hours flight! Drinking a light Amstel beer is very pleasant. This Emirate’s flight are pretty OK! I had a choice of choosing between 200 movies and TV shows, to read the BBC headlines, and so any entertainments, you can easily fly for days with out getting bored! I watched The Queens and pirates of Caribbean, the second one!
I had three sits for myself and I could just lay down, and watch my movies with a glass of not so good wine! Better than nothing though!
I have to say that I became a little emotional when we were flying above Shiraz! When I saw the lights of city and feeling that it is first time I am flying above Iran, and I’m not having the perspective of seeing my family in couple of hours. That felt weird!

Dubai airport is very big, it is a large hall with so many shops, it seems that every body here came to shop (or window shop). I can’t go out into city I need to get visa, and anyhow I ‘ll fly to Kabul in 8 hours.

I went to pick up my ticket from Afghan airline, Ariana, but they told me that I have to go to Kam Air, it seems my flight is different. Nevertheless I got my first chat with couple of people who were standing in the line. A Philippine guy who is doing his military service in Kabul. He was fund of Afghanistan, he showed me his ear stone and said you can find very nice stones in Kabul. He told me that Kabul is really cool! But do not go to Ghandehar, he said he was in ghandehar for a week, and it was every day a suicide bombers and he was so scared that he couldn’t stay any more, he had to beg his manager to send him back to Kabul.
And of course I got to see a Dutch guy! Gees I can’t even get read of Dutch in Afghanistan  He was an engineer, working for Shell, we chatted a little, and joked about what the heck Shell is doing in Afghanistan? There are some oil in Mazar-e-Sharif, and of course we joked about the pipe lines which are suppose to go trough Afghanistan, (when there is more security in the land to actually be able to pass the pipe lines!) but any how he was also a volunteer. using his vacations to start up a water project there, we didn’t talk that much about the project, typical Dutch. He didn’t want to give too much of information. I never get this part of the culture! Or maybe I am too direct wanting to go to the point right away and people scare that I want to get some thing from them! Or Simon would say maybe he was annoyed to see some body from the Netherlands!

The colure of people here is beautiful, it is full of Indian, Indonesian, lots of German, and Arabs. Feels very nice, I should come back here with Simon.

The palm trees in the middle of the hall of duty free are the main reminder of I’m in the Gulf area, reminder of Bandar Abbas, (in south of Iran). It is pretty impressive.

I can’t find the wire less internet I thought I’ll be able to find. I guess I could find it n the lounge of business class airline. Any way it is exciting. Tomorrow I’ll be in Kabul!

Damn! For an Amstel beer I paid 9 euros. This is the most expensive beer I’ve ever had in my life!