For British widow Lynda Leach, 76, her trip to Abu Dhabi last week was a promise to her late husband, Peter Leach - to donate to the government 200 rare photographs of the emirate he took in the 1960s when Abu Dhabi was still a British Trucial State.
Instead, military escalation in the Middle East and flight disruptions across the Gulf have left her stranded in the emirate, waiting for services to fully resume and for the opportunity to hand over the collection to the newly opened Zayed National Museum.
