http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Middle East , United Arab Emirates , Dubai en-us Tue, 08 Dec 09 10:11:23 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 09 10:11:23 +0000 I woke when the hot sun leapt the balcony and splayed over the floor of my hotel room. I opened the glass door and for a while watched this part of Dubai Deira the markety bustling part wake up. My priority for the day as it is most days was to arrange my next travelling leg. After some quick research on the web I caught an airconditioned bus to find the main Emirates Airlines building wh http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-454788.html Hello againWell after my luxurious and relaxing 10 nights in Doha staying with Trude and her family it was a bit of an effort to pack up my bag again and catch my flight to Dubai. Luckily it was only about 45 minutes of flying so it wasn't too taxing. So I made it to Dubai...arrived in the rush hour apparently but didn't get stuck in traffic....the only hiccup getting to my hotel was that it was http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-449927.html Flight to Dubai and Shiraz http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-449924.html Goodmorning goodevening and goodnight....... RIGHT so currently sitting in a large part of the Dubai international airport the food lounge to be precise. But there is a significant lack of food around. However the actual building itself is rather impressive. Oil does buy some pretty cool things. including reclined tacky leather chairs for me to lie about in whilst i wait for my connection.Ye http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-448421.html Welcome to our first travel blog.. We cant promise it will be the most entertaining read but we will try our best to keep it up to date. After too many goodbyes and tears from me we are eventually away Flight was OK shorter than 7 hours although tv was rubbish we both wanted to watch ice age as it was the only decent film on but the sound wouldnt work so we entertained ourselves by having a http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-446109.html We arrived in Dubai at about 7.45am and it was 33 degrees outside. Thankfully on the first day it was a dry heat but it was pretty humid for most of the fortnight. The first thing that struck me about Dubai was that it was much bigger than I'd first imagined. The clusters of towers sprawled out around us and in to the distance as we drove to Cam's O's best friend flat. A common misconception a http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-443953.html And the journey has begunI leave in the next 6 hours from Dubai heading to Hyderabad India. http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-441864.html Hello again We're actually now in HK being a bit slow with the blog update as expected but we'll attempt to get back on schedule soonDubai was a great start to our trip. After the stress of packing up and leaving the UK what we really needed was a bit of chill out time with not much running around. The Dingle family Richard Laura and 5 month old Layla were fantastic hosts. We arrived on Se http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-440503.html Sunday 20thDid a partial tour of the canal system by water bus most impressive. Complete the tour tomorrow.Discovered a great little ldquoristoranterdquo on the square near the hotel serves a good selection of food and the top Chianti is very quaffable. Advised to satisfy our curiosity that a ristorante is owned by one person a trattorie is owned by a family but both serve the same http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-439353.html Kia Ora TrendsettersAnd Congrats to the All Blacks on their success against the Aussies better late than never and Henry lives another day There is quite a following of Kiwirsquos who get together apparently to watch the games in a nearby bar. It doubles as a great reason to have a beer for morning tea we would have joined them but took the opportunity of the long weekend here to zip dow http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-439301.html Have never been to Dubai and decided it was time to visit. I think i picked the wrong time of year to go. It was very hot both in day and evening. One of the local folk said that this was maybe not the best time to visit. All in all it is very intersting place. I only stayed a coupld of days but did enjoy myself alot. http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-438387.html Hello I have had a few emails chastising me for my poor blog keeping so I thought I would check in and let you all know I am alive and well and what I've been doing.Dubai was a mess lol. Everyone had told me it was going to be hot but I had no idea it would be as hot as it was. I really have no idea why people insist on living in the desert its a stupid thing to do like who originally ro http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-437038.html Day 2 started beautifully. Less humidity in the air. Barb and Howie had a great early morning walk. I was suffering a little traveller's diarrhea probably a bit of heat stroke from the previous day. Nothing that a little immodium couldn't handle.At breakfast we discussed how to spend the morning and early afternoon should we head over to the Mall of the Emirates and see the indoor ski http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-436861.html Day 1 started early with 6am photos of the Burj from our balcony. The temperature is 100 and a wall of humid heat. Camera lens gets fogged up after being inside air conditioning.A delicious buffet breakfast the choices covered several rooms western Chinese Japanese East Indian cuisines I can see the diet is gonna go away real fast.Then we're off for a 5hour tour of the city with ou http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-436628.html At breakfast in our hotel yesterday I was mentioning to our friend Barb that I'd shared a Kodak Gallery with a number of people so they could follow along with our trip. I also commiserated about how unfriendly that software is to uploading photos at least with the PC version of the upload software I'm using.She looked at me in disbelief. You're creating an album Why don't you blog.I'm pr http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-436606.html Apparently it's a good idea to sit in the sun in Dubai in summer... though it's not feeling like that hehe well means i have to wear shorts and get my stems and body out and honestly i'm kind of a little nervous. It's a strange thing the have developed some sort of prudential modesty for no real reason. I'm so white... grossFirst swim in a while too... wow that really is a great feeling http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-435297.html I think I had better see just how I travel... so a day on my own in a more than foreign country.It's muslim.It's not democratic.It's hot as hell.It's ramadan so no eating or drinking not even water in public for the daylight hours.Kaelen is going to nursery. Honestly the nursery is rubbish fake grass no teachers smelly Indian grandma for a headmistress YUKTeashhur drives us to the Dubai http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-435294.html 16 hours in the same seat isn't all that great even with the lifesaving ICE that Emirates provides. Watched a couple of movies etc...I think i snuck about 2.5 hours hours of a sort of half sleep in so what's that I've been awake since AEST 7am... I don't get a nap until 2pm of a couple of hours... umm about 37 hours almost straight of being awake I don't know why i'm not more tired. Miles b http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-435290.html Hello Gang so I've finished my first week of classes and to celebrate we went out into the dessert to go bashing with 4x4s. Let me tell you this is the one of the best things I've ever done in my life. So much that I hope to buy a 4x4 next month so I can drive next time we go out. I'm not going to write too much about this I'll let the pictures do all the talking. What I will say is that I love i http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-434030.html Arrived in Dubai a couple of days ago but straight to bed.Yesterday we used the opentop bus to have a look around Dubai city center getting off here and there to see some sights.Luckily enough the bus operator supplied free bottles of water which was a Godsend. It must have easily been around 50C out thereUnfortunate for us is that Dubai is in the start of Ramadan which means that we're not a http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-433871.html