by Marina Bruce | May 11, 2017 | Car Modifications and Accessories, Equipment Reviews, Offroad
Last year the guys at TRED Pro gave me a set of their Total Recovery Extraction Devices to evaluate and write about in Outdoor UAE. We received them just after the summer, in early September and the biggest challenge was to try them out in daylight, in the hottest...
by Marina Bruce | Jun 7, 2016 | Car Modifications and Accessories, Equipment Reviews, Offroad
You might know that I frequently take friends out camping in the desert. There are times when I can’t fit everything I want to take in my roomy Patrol LWB, so I’ve been searching for a roofrack since last winter. On impulse I bought a cheap and boxy one...
by Marina Bruce | May 16, 2016 | Al Ain, Misc Reviews, Personal Blog, UAE Heritage and Culture
One of my biggest regrets since coming to the Middle East is not signing up to a conversational Arabic class until my 6th year here! What held me back was Cost – I’m Scottish. We don’t like spending cash unnecessarily – surely I could buy some books/cds and...
by Marina Bruce | Jan 24, 2016 | Camping, Camping Equipment Reviews, Equipment Reviews
The Coleman’s Instant Tent has been my tent of choice for almost four years now; my first one – the six man version – was bought in 2012 and has seen service in the desert, on beaches and in wadis. There are times when we need a bigger tent –...
by Marina Bruce | Jul 15, 2015 | Dubai & Northern Emirates, Hotel & Food Reviews
I was pleased to give some off-road info to the team at the Radisson Blu blog; although Fujairah is not a sandy emirate there are still plenty of opportunities to get off the beaten track and experience the great outdoors there...
by Marina Bruce | Mar 22, 2015 | Car Modifications and Accessories, Equipment Reviews
March 2015 We’ve had the “car with no name” for almost 2 years now and in that time its seen some pretty heavy overlanding action – from the high dunes of the Empty Quarter to uneven sabkhas, not forgetting a hundred and one gatch tracks. The...
