I'm great over here thanks.. loving it now. I'm actually West of you though (I think, although after last weekend, I'm not so sure!!)
elxxxv... I have learned my lesson on that one, and certainly haven't been put off. There's too much to explore! But I will make sure that next time it's with a group.
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As IF I'd go out in a sandstorm... the weather was beautiful that day and as I've previously stated (if you'd bothered to read the post properly instead of rushing to pontificate) there were many families camping- including Arabs. So get over yourself.

Thanks for all the comments. Like I said, it was an excellent experience on so many different levels. I'm not naiive enough not to know that things could have been very different. But they weren't and there were valuable lessons learned.

And I'm still looking for Nasser and Abdul Rahman. I'm still hoping they'll turn up to one of my after school English classes!