After a long wait, and several delays, I finally got to Dubai at about 3am last Saturday night, to be met by sweltering heat, absolutely no snow, and a customs official who clearly didn’t care who I was, what I was doing or where I was going. After a nice trip down an empty Sheik Zayed Road (the only time you’ll ever see it like that), we got back to Lee’s place, which is so much bigger than the photos make it look! It’s such a nice flat, with air con too The first day Lee took me to Mall of the Emirates, which is huge and has the world’s largest indoor ski slope – everything in Dubai is done to excess, it’s always ‘the biggest’ or ‘the longest’ in the world, nothing is ever
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