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Middle East » United Arab Emirates » Dubai April 14th 2000

John and Peggy drove me around to see sights. We drove to Al Jumeirah , a popular beach area, although hidden from the road by development. Most prominent of these is a huge dhow-sail-shaped hotel, so extravagant that you must have real business or a room there to enter the gates. The man in the airplane said it cost $5000 a night, you get your own Rolls and they fly you there by helicopter. (There is a copter pad hanging off the top to one side.) John said it costs 200 dirhams for tea – about US$50. Next door is the Jumeirah Beach Hotel , which Peggy and I did wander through. It’s imaginative, particularly with flowing multi-coloured pillars along the front hallway where the shops were lo... read more
New development
Road to Deira - centre of old Dubai
Road works

Middle East » United Arab Emirates » Dubai April 13th 2000

The Lufthansa flights to Frankfurt and then to Dubai were easy – only about a third full on the first leg but every seat taken on the second. I had heard about great shopping in Frankfurt airport, but I don’t know where, because the areas around the gates where we landed and departed – in two different terminals – were almost bare of any amenities. From now on, I will travel with water; it cost US$3.00 for a 250 ml bottle of mineral water! Thank goodness I had a peanut-butter-filled hot-cross-bun to munch! Regrettably, I landed in and depart Dubai at night, so I won’t see the desert and the sea from the air. Seated beside me on the plane was a man who was Croatian, living in Germany, stationed for the last six months in ... read more
Streetscape outside the apartment building
Peggy's kitchen
Apartment Building entrance

Middle East » United Arab Emirates » Dubai April 19th 1997

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