City Centre Hotel Residence Dubai

... to go to Dubai Ski. It was absolutely surreal to find myself skiing by -8˚C when moments earlier I was outside by the beach with temperatures over 40.

After skiing I went to Carrefour (A French supermarket chain) - I could not believe they had Carrefour here. The aisles are exactly the same and basically I had the impression of being back home in Fougeres for a second. I bought myself a baguette and some Vache qui rit - So French!

On ...

... that the metro is currently being build and not all station are operating. So the next station took me all the way back towards the Burj area to the Mall of the Emirates.

I had some food, had a look around and realised that Dubai Ski was situated in this mall so the good news was that I knew where to go the next day.

I got the metro to Al Rigga station which did not look to far from the hostel but when I got there people advised me to take a cab. I decided ...

... guy called Sameer and originally from Bangladesh. The security guard was trying to make me pay 10Dhs (£1.70) for my bag being there - dream on!

I got a cab, after being approached by a Russian couple who were on holiday and looked like they fancied a chat with a fellow European. I was told the journey should be around 20Dhs (£3.40). There were a few taxi drivers around but they did not seem to know where it was. I gave ...

... nenajdeme neco zajimaveho. Uz to zacinalo byt mrtve a my byli poradne ospali. Po 1.00 jsme tedy sedli na bus smer letiste. Tam jsme nasli vhodne mista na zemi u sedacek a spali.

Budicek jse dali asi v 7.00 mistniho casu. Dosli jsme si na zachod a utratit zbyle Dirnhamy. A uz jsme patrili do lastcallu na boardingu do letadla. Jeli jsme busem k letadlu sami jen s 2 dalsimi.
Odlet bez problemu.

... props - a sword and slender shepherds crook. After several vigorous and entertaining dances she decided it was time for audience participation and you guessed it she grabbed Harry... With a little push from me he got up and shoke his bootie as guided by the Belly Dancer, lots of applause and hoots from the crowd... Well done darling ! All in all a great show, we were then driven back the tame route (45mins in over the dunes, 15mins out on straight track), and dropped ...

... got in the cab and told the driver where I wanted to go he asked me "where's that?" Yeah, like I know right? So I was expecting a long drive for this guy to find it but luckily he called a friend that helped guide him to the right place. I was there within 20 minutes and basically it was just 1 building (not really that big compared to the others) with a bunch of shops in it. I took a picture of an advertisement on the front that has Mona in it, how ...

... no graffiti, very nice after seeing all the centuries old buildings throughout Europe marred by graffiti .very new, old Dubai not much in evidence except on tours .clear blue skies .extraordinary buildings, too many and too extraordinary to believe! .interesting 'everyday' architecture, mostly in same fluid shape as Arabic writing .huge amount of construction ongoing everywhere .great wealth .gigantic shoppping centres (didn't actually go to one) .low ...

... out with. They remind me of the frat boys from back home: cool jeans with a button-up dress shirt, and perfectly coiffed hair slicked back into a Ken doll style permanently fixed into place with copious amounts of hair gel. Any guy who thinks that this look equals cool is most certainly not the guy for me. It almost always screams out desperate, and usually these guys are just on the prowl for an easy woman. It didn't much matter to me, though, as ...

... all over would visit for supplies. Then they found out that there was oil under all those sand dunes and this all changed. In 1971 the United Arab Emirates was born and modern day Dubai began to grow. The museum walked through souk's of the 1950 that looked the same as if the display was from the 1550's. It was shocking to see how fast life had changed here. The roles of men and women were described as well as their clothing. Every aspect of Bedouin life ...