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Never ignore the angel on your shoulder

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When the family and i recently departed for a month long holiday in the United Kingdom, we planned the trip to include stopovers in Dubai on the way there and back.

The 1st stop over was 2 hours and uneventful, the second was scheduled for 18 hours and looked forward to for 2 reasons , 1 to see Dubai, 2 to say hello to family living there.

Before leaving UK we were going to swap the flight to a direct one, the theory being that stopping over would merely spend even more money and add to a budget that had been so overspent during the last 30 days it was not funny.

However when trying to change the flight we found that all shorter stay over flights were fully booked

Instead of pushing the issue and either changing carrier or making other alternatives to get back we took a pause and said “ok there must be a reason”

Apart from always “trying” to listen to the angel on my shoulder the wife and I both firmly believe in a “hands off” approach to life…..never impose “your will” on your life path

Set goals and destinations BUT always let someone else take the wheel 

So what did we find?

On the return trip our daughter who was struggling with the flu, had such bad motion sickness that she spent 5 of the 6 hour flight looking into a little brown paper bag…:(

Landing in Dubai we bought a travel visa, spent the night sleeping properly in a hotel and spent a FANTASTIC morning on a tourist trip through the city and even got to splash out feet in one of the clearest oceans we have ever seen….

That afternoon we had an utterly uneventful flight back to Johannesburg, the child sat watching movies all the way back DESPITE us being strapped to the seats for 90% of the flight because we flew back along the edge of a storm front attacking Africa and was bumpy the whole way back

Gets off Soap Box :)

 

 

 

 

 

 



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