Testing, testing

For all those who have the joy of residency visa blood tests to come, I have good news. Get your company to pay the extra Dhs100 or so, and go private at the Iranian Hospital. Despite the rather off-putting portakabins marked Blood Tests, the service is swift, and relatively painless (though I was left with a bruise that prompted some wag to ask if the boss had driven me to something stronger than lychee martinis).