Dubai

We spend five days in Dubai, as a stopover with Emirates Airlines. Expensive, massive, impressive, some of the words that come to mind.

We spend a couple of nights at the youth hostel (with a swimming pool that we never approached), met with a friend of mine from Tunisia who is teaching there at the American University, and spend the last night with friends of Thomas, Belgians working there.

Though interesting and glad that I have been there, not my kid of city. Seems like what they're lacking in culture and nature, they're making up for with money, lots of it. Quite the contrast when you're coming from Zim.

They have the highest building in the world, some 700 meters high (which Thomas is crocking into here), artificial islands in front of the coast plastered with commercial centers and theme parks, each competing to be bigger then the others. Construction sites everywhere, traffic all the time and nothing cheap, that seemed most of Dubai. Though I'm sure that to live there can be interesting, and allow you to live quite confortably and pleasantly. Would have a preference though for one of the other Arab countries, like Oman or Yemen (btw, we actually drove through Oman for a couple of hours, without noticing much of a difference). Plans for the future...