Dubai Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

The call to prayer woke me up this morning. Normally it wouldn't, because it's fairly quiet from where I am, but it happened to be after I'd been sleeping for about 13 hours, and my body wanted me to get up, anyways. So what happened yesterday? Well, a lot of it, dear reader, was the flights and the jet lag. It's 11 hours time difference here. T...

I went to buy stamps today, and it's not an experience I want to repeat often. First I went to the Registrar and asked where I could buy stamps. The woman at the desk for some reason just couldn't fathom what I meant by "stamps" and kept trying to give me the University's offical stamp. Maybe I should have said postage? Instead, I ran upstairs t...

Dubai airport, nearly midnight and very bored. Flight from Glasgow was half empty, but seats were comfy, plane was new, and tv etc all good. Airport is pretty busy - loads of indians and arabs asleep on the floor, which is a pain in the ****, because they are all sleeping in front of the chairs, so even though they're not using them, you can't g...

Friday I woke up and went to dive lessons and after I took some time out by the executive pool and swam a bit. Ordered some tapas poolside and it was great. At night, we went to Noodle house in Souk Madinat Jumierah. The souk is really nice and is part of the Jumierah hotel chain, etc. Then, further on at night, my stepmom and I went to a place ...

In 2001 I decided to move to another country, somewhere in the Middle East, back then the word Dubai was unheard of, but a few years later... everyone wants to be there!