The 22.35 Oman Air flight turns out to be the last flight scheduled from Heathrow each day. After take off I had a chance to read the In-Flight magazine.

For the national airline I was disappointed that the magazine was riddled with errors about Oman. The standouts – in an article of Bandar Khiran and its "placid bay" with “no sound pollution, vehicle pollution” while the main photo was of Bandar Khiran one of the others was of the residential area of Wadi Kabir (not a bit of water in sight should have been a give-away for the team responsible for the article ) and the other of Bandar Jissah – both many kilometers from Bandar Khiran.

Just in case any one uses the directions “How to go” they of course are also wrong

Others included key factual errors about the mausoleum at Qalhat ‘Bibi Miriam’ which was stated to have been built for a lady “Bibi Miriam” but was built by the lady for her Turkish husband who was the ruler of Qalhat & Hormuz at the start of the 14thC.

I managed to get sleep despite all that - and woke to the announcement that we were descending into Muscat .

Swinging round we approached from the East and descended past Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, to land about 45 minutes early (I hope there were no speed tickets).