We walked from FGB station the couple of hundred metres to the garden centre passing many car showrooms including Opel/Chrysler, Jeep, Lexus and several other Japanese marques. Across the street were the Lamborghini and Bentley outlets. We've certainly seem evidence of car extravagance here, Ford Mustangs and Porche are two a penny, whilst Lambos, Ferrari and Maserati are very common too.
The garden centre itself was quite large and had all manner of huge ornaments, massive plants and trees, ginormous BBQs and interesting garden furniture apparently made from scrapped tractors and seemingly old boats.
Far more interesting was the cafe on the ground floor which had an interesting range of lunch dishes, cakes and coffee. My smoked turkey frittata and iced latte was very good.
Once back at the flat, I went out on an errand to find a Post Office. I managed to find one on google maps, but then had to navigate to it on foot. After a 2km walk, mainly through Media City and Knowledge Park, I found the Post Office next to the International School of Culinary Arts, just before it closed at 1500. I bought some 6 Dirham stamps to post letters to Europe.
On the way back I sought enlightenment but sadly neither the University of Westminster or the Wollongong University were admitting mature students! There are several other University campuses from the UK represented in Knowledge Park.
Back at the flat, we packed our bags in preparation for our 'moonlight flit' tonight. We plan to escape by taxi around 2200 and head for the airport. Our body clocks will get advanced by another 4 hours overnight.
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