15 year Dubai veterans and found that the brunch at Raffles is consistently good. Not a raucous den of insobriety but great fun, good for kids and superb food.
Booked table last night. Less than 400 for the grown-ups, 200 sans alcohol and 100 for under 12s. (Used to be free!)
Applied for middle daughter's passport renewal and sent off the docs to Germany on 7th May and signed for receipt on 9th.
Credit card was debited on 26th May. Started to get a tad worried a week ago and sent an email to that nice lady in Dusseldorf who said that it was scheduled to be printed and dispatched early this week. That will be an eight week turnaround. As long as it arrives by next Wednesday!
Lord knows how the poor people who have applied in the last week or so will get on, especially as Arabian Business has run this story today: http://www.arabianbusiness.com/british-expats-face-eight-week-wait-for-new-passports-407481.html
Oh - when I renewed my passport in January it was superbly efficient: just five working days from sending it off to receiving the new passport back.
<em>edited by choccy62 on 28/06/2011</em>
Hello. I lived near Newbury for 20 plus years before moving to Dubai. It's a beautiful part of the world and so easy to get up to London either on the M4 or via rail - just 22 mins to Paddington from Reading.
I'd seriously consider living in west Berkshire. :-)
I guess all these people with jobs in Newbury are working for an international mobile telecomms company.
