Corporate wife perks….

His nibs works for Volvo and each year in December they have an importer conference for the Middle East. In 2005 it was held in Dubai at Al Maha, you’ve heard all about the place in my ‘More Spoiling’ post so I won’t bore you with the details again. Fortunately wives were allowed for this conference, okay technically I was not a wife but near as damn it and there was no way I was not going! His nibs had to work though – shame….. me and the other wives however did not! So we enjoyed a walk about with one of the rangers to see the horses. We were planning on riding until we spoke to the ranger. You see all of the horses are retired Arabian race horses, endurance racing, and if you are not a very capable horse-woman you’ve no chance of controlling the beasts. As soon as they catch another horse in their sights they’re off and not a lot will stop them. The ranger told us an amusing but scary story of a Japanese tourist who’d come off his horse. This tourist was no more a rider than me, but he lied when asked about his experience and told them he was a jockey in Japan. Thinking they were giving him the ride of his life the rangers set him up with the fastest horse they had. The minute the poor man was on its back the horse took off into the desert. Over an hour later the tourist was found having been thrown from his ride, not seriously injured but very sunburnt and dehydrated after his time in the desert. The horse, well he took a few more hours to find.

A facial and massage seemed a much better option so I booked in at the spa. Whilst his nibs and colleagues slaved in the conference centre I lay back and drifted on a white fluffy cloud having my treatments. The food was amazing, the booze free-flowing and the rooms to die for. The best bit; all of this was free… See there are perks to being a corporate wife!