World Architecture Festival awards a building in Oman a prize.

Its nice that a building in Oman has won an award in the ‘Future Projects , Leisure led development’ at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. They have a quote on their website “WAF is the best

Ramadhan Kareem

Ramadhan Kareem 2012

Transit of Venus from Muscat

One of the oldest descriptions of Oman’s coast is from the ‘Periplus of the Erithian Sea’ which describes the southern coast, improbably for an Arabian land, as being “wrapped in thick clouds and fog”.

So it was today, as I woke early for yet another once in a century, or so, event – the Transit of Venus.