Oscar Wilde ruined my trip to Yemen

[Led]

This is mad?, I'm travelling through the middle east and am in Oman at the mo, great country, loving it but i said i'd pay a visit to Yemen for the laugh cuz I was only 6 hours from the border, so hopped on a bus. When I got to the border, they were checking my passport to issue a visa and they reckoned it could be a fake cuz it looked dodgy(which it does its eight years old and i often have strange looks at it,i think its even been through the wash). So then they decide they want to search my bag and they empty all my stuff out and pick up a green slightly army looking hat(coincidence) a pair of combats and bring them to the boss man, i dont know whether they thought i was in the army or what, they showed them to the boss and then they started checking through the few books i had, one of which was Oscar Wildes 'Picture of Dorian Gray'. They checked the books on a list and then started giving out in Derka Derka. As you probably know Oscar Wilde was gay(before ye start joking i'm reading it cuz hes irish and supposed to be one of the best authors around) so that must have been the problem.

So then the bus goes without me and i'm stuck on a desrt border for 2 hours while they discuss something??, i don't know what and then they tell me they won't issue me a visa and am not allowed into Yemen and i'll have to wait for a bus back, which i got pissed off waiting for so i ended getting a lift with a local back to the last village/town before the border. Ragin! and i now gotta wait in a tiny internet cafe/cow shed i don't know how long in 38-40 degrees with no airconditioning, i wish i stayed at the border at least it was cool in that building. I'm half afraid i'm gonna get electricuted from the keyboard with the sweat rolling off me.
Had to have been the book but they wouldn't tell me why, fucking hell?? So now i'm bored shitless and i got an internet connection thats slower than a very toasted Hedgey...

[P-Dog]

LOL, They probably thought you were a shirt lifter.

Good book by the way..........

[Jay]

Jesus man that sucks, and I thought because they didn't make my sandwich right at lunch that I was havin a bad day hah!

[Led]

Yeah fuckin hell i thought i was gonna get arrested for a while there but it wasn't too bad, i think it sounds worse when i read over it than it was, it was all ok except for the heat, and yeah it is a good book paddy, luckely i had finished it and was just carrying it until i met a native english speaker to give it to, their kinda rare out here.Its all right now though i'm back in what could be called civilisation and i have a place to stay and stuff so happy days might go to Bahrain tomorrow instead. Muslim Countries can be abit strict, the people are really trusting and nice though, here in Oman people not only leave their cars open but they leave the windows completly down even if theirs stuff on the dash or whatever,i think this is the safest country i've ever been to, but ive only been here a few days, but still you'd notice the difference.

By the way if your interested, Oman was home to Sinbad the Sailor, the Queen of Sheeba and the only place in the world where frankincense trees grow(its made from the sap and was as expensive as gold back in the day)