Brunch!

What did you do last weekend? We went to Brunch at the Marriott and ate and drank more than any person should in one sitting! Here are some of the delights we sampled...

Choose your ingredients and they'll cook it for you!

Seafood galore....

What tasty morsels lie under these covers...?

Beautiful watermelon carvings

An ice sculpture! And actual real ice-sculpture!

Most of the food is laid on outside the restaurants and you can go and choose what you want to eat, but some of the rooms lay on food as well.

Anyone for Sushi?

How about some Salmon?

Or Indian?

Maybe you have a sweet tooth like I do - these puddings were heavenly. Truly.

Back to the sushi. My husband tried it, but raw fish is not really my thing...

I'd rather delight in these yummy things!!!

P.S. Look at that square dish in the last picture - isn't it lovely?! I want some of those!!



Museum of Islamic Art

As you know, we have a guest staying at the moment. Last weekend we dropped in at the Museum of Islamic Art on the Corniche here. I've visited a few times and never fail to be suprised that, although the temperature and lighting of the artifacts is controlled, they still permit flash photography. Anywhere else in the world and I'm fairly certain this would be prohibited. I can't say that a reflection of your flash on a glass case would give you the best picture anyway - but I'm sure you understand where I'm coming from.

Also unlike other museums elsewhere, there is very little information displayed about the artifact itself. I only found out this weekend (that despite the museum being open for over 2 years now) that if you want to learn more about the items you can actually pick up a headset and have it over audio. You'd think they'd inform you of this when you walk in right? Wrong....

Here are a few of my photos from our trip there. As I didn't find out about the headsets until AFTER this trip, I can't tell you any more about the items I'm afraid...

A bowl.... I particularly like the lighting on this piece.

Necklace of spinels.

Various glass items.

Doing the tourist thaaang

This weekend we picked up our guest from the airport, and because we unfortunately don't have the time to take off work, we did the tourist thing over the weekend. There's not much to see here, and even less to do, so it didn't really take that much time!

The first day we managed a drive around town, then a trip to The Pearl and (Thank Goodness there was somewhere open!) drank a lemon granita, before heading back into town, getting some lunch, walking around the park and getting in a food shop! Home and time to start making a fruit salad and it was back out for me.

The second day of our friend's visit was not quite as jam packed, but still enough walking and site seeing to have me completely exhausted and ready for an early night when we got home!

Here are some of the things we saw - enjoy!