Middle East
مع السّلامة : Saying’goodbye’ to Dubai
Tweet I’ve been blogging about Dubai for over a month now and today will be my last post on the city. As we went around, I tried to remember how things were so that I could describe the changes to M. In 20 years time, it may be harder to see the evolution. So M. decided … Continue reading
The view from the bottom… is never the same as from the top
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And then there was some monkey business to take care of…
Tweet M. and I decided we needed a travel companion who would fit the following requirements: Number 1: S/he would be seen and not heard; Number 2: S/he would remind us of ‘home’; Number 3: S/he wouldn’t mind bottoms of small backpacks.
Photo of the week
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Only in Dubai…
Tweet … would you find a mobile phone that costs this much. (All prices are in UAE Dirhams. And in case you’re wondering 1 USD will get you 3.67 AED. I’ll let you do the math.) I wanted to go into the shop to find out what the “special offer” was about, but M. wouldn’t let … Continue reading
I’ve never climbed a tree…
Tweet I’ve seen camels eat out of the garbage. I’ve slid down a sand dune on a shopping bag. I’ve sprayed fake snow on a plastic tree at Christmas. I’ve seen Santa ride into town on a camel. I’ve ice skated in 50 degree weather. I’ve spent the night in the desert. And I’ve seen … Continue reading
Horsing around at Dubai’s Madinat Jumeirah
Tweet Dubai is good at hotels and shopping malls. And Madinat Jumeirah brings together both.
The “peach boy” at the Souk Al Bahar
Tweet Momotaro came to earth inside a giant peach, which was found floating down a river by an old, childless woman who was washing clothes there. The woman and her husband discovered the child when they tried to open the peach to eat it. The child explained that he had been sent by Heaven to … Continue reading
Now that Dubai has a “downtown” area…
Tweet …what’s there to do? You can swim with the sharks or ice skate… at the Dubai Mall When you’ve got such a high concentration of shopping malls in one country it’s good for business to do something “different” to attract the crowds. Cue giant aquarium at the Dubai Mall.
Would you spend a night at the Burj Al Arab?
Tweet Want an honest description of the Burj Al Arab? How about this one by Sam Wollaston of The Guardian who described it as “fabulous, hideous, and the very pinnacle of tackiness – like Vegas after a serious, no-expense-spared, sheik-over.”
