Gifts are good!


Morning Crossers Inshallah all well in your neck of the woods. The Christmas holiday is almost upon us and no doubt many Crossers are considering a suitable festive gift for MB. But relax Crossers, MB has received far too many gifts this year and has no more space in his accommodation to accept more. So instead Crossers, MB implores you to make suitable donation…

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Temple Of Hercules. Amman, Jordan.

Gifts are good!


Morning Crossers Inshallah all well in your neck of the woods. The Christmas holiday is almost upon us and no doubt many Crossers are considering a suitable festive gift for MB. But relax Crossers, MB has received far too many gifts this year and has no more space in his accommodation to accept more. So instead Crossers, MB implores you to make suitable donation…

Black & White


Steaming fish and worker at the fish ovens, Ajman Fish Market, UAE.

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Dubai belly dancer. At post desert safari bbq. All the belly dancers are non-local as would not be acceptable for local girls to perform by families or the local religion or culture. Many are East European.

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In the Dubai desert. On the road to Al Ain.

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A beach in Sharjah, UAE.

Let there be light (2)


Weekly Photo Challenge: Let there be light


Turkish Lamps. Global Village Market, Dubai.

Love Is In The Air


Morning Crossers Its 5am on a fresh Friday Riyadh morning. MB fell asleep too early last night and arose before cock-crow. The muezzin is belting out the call to prayer to the Muslim faithful. Those who wish to attend the nearby Mosque have 15 minutes to get there for first prayer of the day. Should they so chose. 99.9% will give this one a…

Congrats Dubai!


World Expo 2020 awardhttp://www.thenational.ae/uae/expo-2020/celebrations-and-school-holiday-across-uae-for-dubais-expo-2020-win Dubai Mall. September 2013.

If Carlsberg did Golf Club signs……………


Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected


At a Buddhist Temple, Kathmandu. October 2012.

50 Years


The photo that hung in numerous Irish homes in the 1960s & 70s. Thanks to my neighbour DOC back home, for the chance to take this photo in his Old Irish Ways museum last month.

Not An Alien


Morning Crossers Another Friday morning in Riyadh, the start of the weekend out these parts. Friday mornings are always quiet. Inside the hotel or outside. Few people visible as many have a lie-in. The Prayer channel from Mecca is on, as usual, on the hotel lobby TV and some Imam lad is singing verses from the Quran as pilgrims walk in circles around the holy kaba….