Today was close to perfect! I got up early enough to get a ride with Peggy and John to Sharjah to see the Central Souk . This was a huge conglomeration of covered-shops, i.e., totally indoors but not a coordinated mall. Its design respected the old-style souk, if you consider that a souk consists of shops with a covering built over the street. The Central Souk was like a set of strip mall shops that shared common parking, and a covered central walkway – two storeys high. Two long buildings were joined by second storey walkways. The whole was decorated in an Iranian-style, blue-painted tile design. But I didn’t go there directly. After dropping Peggy at DWC (Dubai Women’s College), John drove into Sharjah. We conducted a mumbling debate about which coffee sh
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