Well we got to Berlin with no problems. Lovely city with beautiful architecture and seeped in history.

We called BA in the lounge at Heathrow prior to booking our train tickets, who eventually agreed to pay for the fare. We purchased first class, but printed the Economy price, to claim that and obviously pay the difference ourselves.

Took the Air Berlin flight to AUH last night, which I do have to say was very nice. The hard product, IMO is so much better than BA, and the service was pretty good as well.

At the moment we are sitting on top of the Hilton The Walk in Dubai, on the terrace at the Executive lounge watching the night sky light up! With a wine ... or 2

All this was done with the help of you guys at Flyertalk.... big thank you !