A Day in Dune

Digging a car out of a sand dune on a remote road in the middle of the desert as the night sets in. Box ticked.

Now you may think that a series of rash decisions led to that

predicament but you'd be wrong. A couple of us had tried to go and see the World's Biggest Sand Dune TM - the only thing around here vaguely resembling a tourist attraction. Turns out it was further away than we thought. It also turns out that the sand that had blown across the road was far, far deeper than we thought.

Stuck fast, we were. Still it didn't take us more than half an hour to get the car out. Some camels watched us. they didn't offer to help, the bobble-backed bounders.