Don't try and get a Taxi if UAE win a football match

I came out of my hotel tonight to be confronted by a huge traffic jam.
The youth of sharjah were celebrating I think UAE winnning a football match (later found it was the U19 ASian Cup !). Plenty of flags, constant horns, fireworks and complete mayhem greeted me. They had managed to convert the roads that go around the Buhiarah Corniche (about 7 miles of 3 lane roads) into a parking lot and were celebrating. The Police were not impressed but could do nothing. 1000s of cars were stranded.
Luckily I persuaded a stressed taxi driver to take me to Dubai airport - he did not want to do it, but his way home was blocked and he wanted to escape the parking lot ! A few extra Dhms and I made my flight in decent time.

Sharjah Museum of Archaelogy

Another great Museum - full of interesting facts e.g. the Gulf was not the Gulf until 5000BC, when it filled with water. Beautiful selection of jewellry, pottery and early weapons well displayed. unfortunately my camera ran out power 1/3 way of around but some pictures are on my Picassa gallery.
Unfortunately the Science Museum next door was shut - a word of warning - Museums tend to open 3-8pm, the morning openings claimed by the Sharjah Tourist Brochures are not consistent i.e. the Museums of Archaeology and Islamic Arts were open in the morning as advertised, but the museiums of Heritage and Science were not.

Feeling Safe (and more about Taxis)

You are very safe in Sharjah......classic example this morning:
I jumped in a taxi to go to the Sharjah Museum of Archaelogy. As ever the Driver's english was bad, but in this caese it seemed worse than usual like "none at all". I soon realised that gesticulating at a map, or trying to explain or pointing at Tourist guide. However he did understand left and right so off we set.
He was immediately on his phone, talking to someone. he tried to expalin he didn't understand but the only thing I could understand was "car not work". upon which he dived off the main road into one of Sharjah's Industrial areas. It is hard to explain what an Industrial area is like without sounding arrogant and western, but let's say it's very 3rd world slum like, no proper roads, with business packed, many people living and working together in abject squalor but in a very sandy environment.
So we are bumping along, the man talking in his phone and I have to admit all my alarm bells. Suddenly the taxi ground to halt and when I asked he said he was waiting for a man......I am now in a cold sweat.... Then another uniformed taxi driver appeared and dived in the back. I began weighing up my options
However the second man, with a big beaming smile, explained his friend had called him because he spoke good english. We were soon crashing our way (at one point the track got really muddy there was huge puddle of water twice the width of the track) of the industrial area and found the museum 10 mins later.