Hi everybody,
Well, I'm in Rome now, but first I had a 19 hour layover in Dubai, where I stayed at the amazingly opulent and beautiful Arabian Courtyard Hotel & Spa. Here is a picture of my room and the view from the window of the Dubai Museum and one of the Grand Mosques of the city:
I also had a walk around the old part of the city (Bastarakiah), where I had lunch:
And then a walk around the textile market (called a "souk"), which was a bit intimidating, somewhat like the tourist retail area in the Turkish city Rachael and I went to once, only this time all the pushy salesmen were trying to sell textiles.
The textile souk was close to the little creek that the city of Dubai is built up around, so I took a picture of that too.
On the way back to the airport I caught a glimpse of the world's tallest building (the one that looks like a needle, second from the left), but it was too far away to look very impressive in a photograph.
That's all for now. I'll have a post about Rome in a day or two. All the best from the Eternal City,
Throckmorton.
Well, I'm in Rome now, but first I had a 19 hour layover in Dubai, where I stayed at the amazingly opulent and beautiful Arabian Courtyard Hotel & Spa. Here is a picture of my room and the view from the window of the Dubai Museum and one of the Grand Mosques of the city:
I also had a walk around the old part of the city (Bastarakiah), where I had lunch:
And then a walk around the textile market (called a "souk"), which was a bit intimidating, somewhat like the tourist retail area in the Turkish city Rachael and I went to once, only this time all the pushy salesmen were trying to sell textiles.
On the way back to the airport I caught a glimpse of the world's tallest building (the one that looks like a needle, second from the left), but it was too far away to look very impressive in a photograph.
That's all for now. I'll have a post about Rome in a day or two. All the best from the Eternal City,
Throckmorton.
