When I saw the picture of “Ferrari World”, taken from above, in the newspaper the other day I was blown away. Okay, granted, it’s an aerial view of a model, but still very impressive.
Category: wow
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the F1 coaster
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update: Burj Dubai
So Burj Dubai, or at least, Burj Khalifa as it was renamed at the last minute, is now officially open, and stands 828m high.
Unfortunately we were stuck in traffic on our way to the Creek, where we had reservations for dinner on Bateaux Dubai (again), at the moment of the fireworks so we missed seeing them, but we could see the tower twinkling away like a giant (dare I say) Christmas tree in the distance all evening. Very pretty indeed. Oh and the dinner was wonderful, I recommend it highly.
The picture above I “borrowed” from the UAE Community blog’s post on the opening, but B.D. gets all the credit. Thank you, I hope you don’t mind.
In case you missed it I found a video on youtube, enjoy.
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another mile (high) stone…ok not quite a mile
Burj Dubai (a.k.a the world’s tallest skyscraper) officially opens tonight. “Burj” is the Arabic word for tower. Apparently this building was designed by Norman Foster, the same fellow who did the Gherkin in London and the Burj Al Arab Hotel, but I haven’t been able to confirm this.
We will be having dinner on the Creek tonight and will hopefully be able to see the fireworks from there. I will take some photos if this is the case, and post them tomorrow.
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i in the sky
“WOW, WOW, WOW!”, is all I can say!
Stu and I took advantage of an amazing Eid BOGOF* offer from Seawings this past Sunday. And yes I do mean Sunday and not Friday. I was (still) not working, and he had a surprise day off due to Eid and Tecom being closed. So we called Seawings on Sunday morning (after trying all day Saturday with no answer but we won’t go there), and yes!, they had space for 2 on their 16h45 30 minute, or Pearl, flight. The 45 minute flight, which includes flying over the Creek, was just sliiiiightly out of our price-range (and not on special). But we were not unhappy as we still flew over and around many Dubai Landmarks, including the Marina, Burj al Arab, Burj tower, the Palm Jebel-Ali, the Palm Jumeirah and The World. Dubai is truly amazing from the air. Even though the sun was setting, and it was a little hazy, we had the best time. I have loaded a few photos here for you to see what I mean.
[the Seawings Cessna Caravan]
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I heart DXB
The great thing about having people visit you when you are living away from home, that is apart from just seeing them obviously, is getting to do all the touristy stuff you don’t bother with normally. Having to show people the sights of your new home really forces you to see stuff you would probably never get around to seeing, and doing things you haven’t yet gotten around to doing. This is exactly what happened to us this past weekend. Some of our friends’ family are visiting Dubai at the moment from the UK, and we were invited on (ahem gate-crashed) some of their outings. It’s been great actually.
[the “Big Red” sand dune]
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