Gershwin and Mendelssohn at the Royal Opera House

We enjoyed an evening of Gershwin and Felix Mendelssohn at the Royal Opera House , while Thunder & Lightning played outside around Muscat.
Gershwin’s music was An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue with piano performance by Alexei Volodin, the acoustics of the auditorium showed off the individual performers superbly.

Royal Opera House Orchestra Dell Accademia Teatro Alla Scala

Mendelssohn’s Symphony no 4 appropriately ‘The Italian’ was played ‘molto

Omar Faruk Tekbilek in Oman

After the night with Anouar Brahem & Randy Weston we went in for more eastern ‘fusion’ with an evening of music at the Royal Opera in Muscat by Omar Faruk Tekbilek.

Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Tour of Oman 2012 Friday – day 4

Lodewickj Klass and Vandenbergh Stijn lead on day 4 of the Tour of Oman cycle race.

TOUR OF OMAN 2012 leaders

Oman Treasure Hunt

One of ‘reality TVs’ longer lived formats has been The Amazing Race

Amazing Race contestant proposes marriage in Oman

which visited Oman a couple of times . Well along the same theme (I think you will agree)  is a new promotion with the Ministry of Tourism and Oman Air is the “First Annual Oman Air International Media Treasure Hunt”

Oman for Christmas

Christmas Day in Oman was a really nice bight sunny one. Taking to an almost mirror like Sea of Oman our group on a weeks holiday in Oman we sped away from Muscat’s mountains into the land of the Dolphin. To the accompaniment of oooh’s and aaaah’s we had a nice encounter with a Dolphin Pod which