We were up at 5:50, our cab is booked for 6:50, had a call in for a wake-Up at 6 but it never came until 6:30 and another call at 6:40 to say our cab was here.  Anyway we were out at the airport in tons of time for our 10:45 Flight.  Being there three hours early is a pain.  We walked past some nice cafe’s thinking about breakfast but thought we will get through immigration and stuff before the queues arrive, which we did, but then struggled to find a nice place for breakfast on the other side.  McDonalds was just opening but you wouldn’t catch me going in there.  I settled for a muffin and coffee from Starbucks and even though I don’t like Starbucks however the coffee wasn’t bad.  We were bused out to the plane, now I know how cattle feel going to the works.  We stood on the bus for ages waiting for something to happen.  We were in the air about 25 minutes late and settled into our eight hour flight.  Lunch was nice; I had chicken breasts and stuff, Margaret lamb.   You sort of felt tired but didn’t want to sleep as you would be going to bed soon after getting there and want to sleep then, so watched a couple of movies. We arriving just after 8 o’clock to 34 degree temperatures and zipped through immigration only to wait ages for our bags.   Our chauffeur was waiting for us and we were driven to our hotel in a flash Audi to discover we had picked another bad time to be in Abu Dhabi.  It was some special holidays,  the hotel was full of kids who seemed to be running wild around the place.  So much for a 5 Star hotel.