Middle East

Middle East

Dubai – The Biggest and Tallest

It’s Friday today and the equivalent of Sunday in the western world. As a result many of the local places such as museums, markets and government centres are closed. We wondered whether we might find enough to do but as it turned out, we had an easy and relatively full day. We had booked a […]

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Middle East

Dubai – First Impressions

The only time I had ever been to the UAE (United Arab Emirates) was to transit through Abu Dhabi in the old days when the airlines used it, or Saudi Arabia, as refuelling stop on the flight from Europe to Australia. Dubai has now become the focal point in the area and we arranged a […]

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