Greetings from sunny, HOT, gorgeous, "very-different-than-India", Dubai!!!!!!! (and birthday greetings to my friend and editor, Linda Fletcher, in London!) We left our hotel yesterday morning in good time. Everyone was quite ok with leaving India, after having seen the Taj Mahal and having experienced the traffic, the smog, the crowds of people, the animals everywhere, etc. etc. Time to head out to Dubai........where we were scheduled to have "free" time for the afternoon and have some fun. Not to be! All went well at the airport, we boarded the plane, and then........we sat! For almost 2 hours! Not that it was a hardship, since the Icelandic Air crew are so amazing. We were served (our usual) champagne, orange juice, etc. The air-conditioning was on (thank goodness!!!!!). We had a chance to visit with each other, read
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