Land that time forgot

Ordered from my safe haven in the Omani desert by hysterical governments unprepared - again - for large scale virus attack (but we have airports full of mothballed military equipment in case of human attack) I have bought a ticket home via Abu Dhabi.
At the airport, the palm trees are waving but nobody else is.
Ever half hour a expressway plays: "We would like to remind you that snogging is allowed only in the designated areas. Taking things a bit too far I thought; but then realised that the Arabicc announcer had actually said 'smoking'.
Some one forgot to tell the Bangladesh sweepers that washing virtually unused marble halls was not really required, so they constitute 90% of the airport movements. Most of them have family back home and are especially concerned about them as information from the sub-continent is scarce and unreliable.Read more