Blogs from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Middle East - page 21

A lovely day here in Dubai. We travelled in a spotlessly clean air conditioned train through the outskirts of the city to yet another shopping mall. Everything here is inside a Mall..,I guess it's to keep out if the heat especially in the summer. Again it was very busy therevwere 650+ stores plus restaurants and a new cinema in construction. Staying in the residential area is quite a different experience to the tourist hotel zone. It us much quieter in the day as everyone is obviously at work, and the waterfront is noticeably calm. We are very close to the Royal Yacht Club which we walked past but I did not feel suitably dressed to go in! Those we did see were in designer labels and 6 inch heels dripping with gold! But I guess they ... read more

My Tale from Dubai Well here it is my first post to my new blog. I am three weeks on the road now so I have a bit of catching up to do. It all began on the 2nd of January, after long and sometimes emotional good-byes in Spain and Ireland, I finally set off. First stop Dubai. My reasons for visiting to Dubai for more than a day or two was to catch up with Martin and Polina and, after 15 years, meet my old pal from my St Thomas´and ITU course days, Angie, her two beautiful little girls, Sophie and Molly and husband Johnny. Dubai was much as I expected really, a lot of glitz and glamour but not a huge amount of soul. Having said that Angie took me, with her Mum, on ... read more

Escaping the winter in England seems like a good excuse to get away to sunnier climes and as I have said before I am lucky with the locations my kids have chosen to live ...so here I am in Dubai at Suzanne's for a month. It is now 10 years since I lived here and the changes have been enormous and seem to continue. On my last visits I tried out the new metro and linking busses to get around - this time it's a new Tram system which links up to the metro around the Dubai Marina area and is set to go further in Phase 2. There are also water busses which take you from the Marina all the way to the old Creek area of Dubai. The ease with which you can use ... read more

So, angekommen an unserer ersten Destination, Dubai, hieß es erst mal: Check in erst ab 14 Uhr. Gut, war ja schließlich schon sieben Uhr morgens. Nun ging es darum die Zeit zu überbrücken und die Stadt erstmals zu besichtigen. Schlau wie wir waren, dachten wir das geht bestimmt super zu Fuß. Das Burj Khalifa haben wir ja schließlich schon von weitem gesehen. Da haben wir uns wohl zu früh gefreut. Nach zwei Stunden Fußmarsch waren wir zwar durch halb Duabi gelaufen, jedoch sind wir nirgends angekommen wo es etwas sehenswertes gab. Nach einer Kaffeepause beschlossen wir einstimmig uns ein Taxi zu nehmen, was zu unserer Verwunderung tausend mal billiger ist als in Deutschland. Nach dem wir die Dubai Mall und das Burj Khalifa besichtigt hatten, sind wir abends noch über den Gewürz- und Goldsouk geschlendert. Am ... read more

Geo: 25.27, 55.3328 December - 3 January DubaiThis is going to be a short blog, mostly photographs. As we have said before we generally do not like cities but we did want to see Dubai which is part of the UAE and the hub for Emirates Airline, so we decided to stop over en route to New Zealand.Was it worth it? It is interesting to see and we were lucky in having chosen reasonable accommodation close to a metro station and then luckily being upgraded to a one bedroom apartment with sitting/dining area, kitchen (including a washing machine), large bedroom and bathroom. So we were very comfortable especially appreciated as Jim had a cold requiring us to stay in one day.When it comes to describing Dubai I have difficulty knowing where to start! It is an ... read more