Back to Work

So left Lisbon on the 17th March and headed back to Abu Dhabi landing at 11.30 and getting to my flat around 1.00, it was then that I found out through my flatmate that I was off to a rig the very next day (or that day if your being strict about time and dates...). So I spent the morning in a bit of a panic buying supplies and random bits and bob's for the rig and departed later that afternoon.

The job is a very basic direction, inclination and gamma ray job so we only have one tool and the DD's (directional drillers) tool. We got set up but it took 2 days for the rig to finish its previous operations before we actually picked up our tools and started doing any drilling!  

Lisbon was fantastic and it was super nice to have a relatively "normal" life for 10 day's. Sorry to my parents for not visiting, I looked but flights were expensive (almost the same as getting from UAE to Portugal!) and then there was a big lunch party that we wanted to go to!!! lol

I did discover how unfit I have become, I cycled out to Lu's work one day to meet her for lunch, it's a really nice cycle mostly along the "peridao" (Promenade - my spelling of that is not good!) for about 10K. There are a couple of hills and after climbing one I had to pull over in case I was going to chunder!

So I am back to work and now is the time when I really get "squeezed" by the company to make the most out of me, I have to say that going from vacation with my girlfriend in Lisbon to work in the desert in just over one day is quite a shock to the system but I know what I signed up for so....

Vacation, Yea!

So, have sucessfully finished the ENG1 training school and my general laxidasical attitude and low work ethic means I have been rewarded with a week off! Shabba!

If anybody finds themselves flying into or out of Abu Dhabi I suggest you try to fly Etihad Airways. In a classical example of good old emerati politics the Etihad Airways seem to have an entire terminal devoted to themselves, the place is pimped and a nice spot to hang around for a couple of hours. On the contrary I spent 2 hours last night sitting in yet another building site as I flew Air France. No joke the other terminal (2 i think) is like being in a DIY enthuisasits wet dream.