Recent Posts Tagged With 'Driving'

• Fair cops

  Posted on Monday March 3rd, 2008 at 06:04 in Police, Driving

  Dubai Police are among the best in the world.According to... Dubai Police!A huge round of applause to Lt General Tamim for winning such an outstanding self-accolade.Meanwhile is anyone else slightly disturbed that "causing death to others" has only j...

• Royal joyride

  Posted on Thursday December 13th, 2007 at 14:10 in Driving, abu dhabi

  An amusing story, sent in by an associate. US popstar Justin Timberlake comes to the UAE and plays a major UAE venue. Three RAF pilots on the Tornado F3 deployment in the Gulf go along to the show. "Drink is taken as it is with Irish navvies and f...

• No, I've never met a nice...

  Posted on Saturday October 20th, 2007 at 20:24 in Driving

  On such a day as this it seems appropriate to ask - why are South Africans, and to a lesser degree Scots, the only peoples so insistent on proclaiming their nationality on the back of their cars?...

• Sick joke of salik

  Posted on Sunday October 7th, 2007 at 18:33 in Driving

  Amen:"Today is the 100th day of the introduction of the Salik toll system in Dubai. Since its launch on July 1, it is believed that the road toll system, the first of its kind in the UAE and in the region, has earned revenues of more than Dh200 milli...

• Five Dubai delights

  Posted on Wednesday July 18th, 2007 at 19:51 in Driving

  As the time of year comes to pack the BOAC bag and set off on another trip back to colder climes, the thought of what will be most sorely missed from the sandlands comes to mind.Among Dubai's many attractions, five things stand out:1. Permanent, bri...

• Imbesalik

  Posted on Sunday July 1st, 2007 at 17:29 in Driving

  Hint to the wise brethren of the RTA: shifting gridlock from one location to another is not actually solving gridlock....