Despite being seemingly contradictory to everything I stand for, I was admittedly quite intrigued by Dubai. We gave it a day. Actually, I didn’t dislike it. The extravagance, the ostentatious displays of wealth, the biggest, tallest, most luxurious, most expensive whatever, claims to fame that do not generally attract me to a place. But Dubai was alright. It was cheaper to fly back to the UK from Dubai instead of Muscat. So, rather than just using the city for its airport, we arrived for our flight the best part of a whole day early and had a look around. We had expected much from Oman and were disappointed. We expected little from Dubai and were pleasantly surprised. Leaping to a conclusion drawn from little experiential evidence: Oman = very interesting country with lots to do but
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