Holiday Beach Motel

The journey was pretty dull to Fujairah straight roads and the odd camel, except when we got on the new road. A rock avalanche that’s been there for months meant I had to off-road my Porsche along a dusty track, just what they’re designed for, thanks Fujairah Municipality.

Upon arrival at the Holiday Beach Motel we enjoyed a quick game of 'Poo done it?' were pretty sure Clyde was the one who left us the message on the bed, but it may have been Dolores out of excitement.

Holiday Beach Motel is a fine establishment on the coast near Fujairah, at least 1* maybe 2. You can rent a 2 bedroom villa for Dhs 750 per night and enjoy a fantastic English breakfast in the 1970's style restaurant. Worrying that the waiter remembers me, but it worked out well as we persuaded him to cook the left-over sausages and fried potato that we barbecued the night before. As you can see the restaurant is quite busy at 9am that’s why its so big.

It was then off to the 'Hole in the wall' off-license to stock up on grog. A few crates of beer and a free inedible mango for Dhs 240... bargain!

Drinking and Dominos commenced immediately... we know how to have a good time in Fujairah’s equivalent of Butlins. That was pretty much it for Wednesday other than a barbecue.

Next day were off to the Fish Market to buy a big grey fish, pity I don’t eat the stuff as it was Dhs 25 for a 6kg fish. The dogs loved the leftovers anyway.

More drinking, sitting around and dominos, a few card games to spice things up as well. It’s a hard life living in the Gulf.

Barbecue went well, didn’t burn anything.

Bit of swimming in the sea the next day, didn’t see many fish but there were 3 turtles swimming around me and Lisa.

On the way back saw the only convertible in Fujairah (other than mine) at least they can get more than 2 people in it.

The drive back was fraught with accidents, every few miles a truck had crashed into another one. In one case a car had crashed into a few others on a straight road leaving a spectacular amount of damage to the cars and concrete blocks dividing the road. If accident spotting is your thing come to the UAE, you’ll be in your element.