Dubai – Melbourne – Sunshine Coast Monday 9th October – Dubai & 39C at 10pm. 14 hour flight to Melbourne & 11C at 10pm on Tuesday 10th October. Wednesday 11th October & 6C at 7am. I flew to the Sunshine Coast and arrived around lunch time and a pleasant 25C. Until next time……..
Dubai Mall Monday 9th October We continued on the metro, being able to travel in the female-only carriage and alighted at the Dubai Mall stop. We walked kilometers in an elevated, air-conditioned walkway with at least a dozen travelators just to reach the outskirts of the mall. The Dubai Mall is dubbed the world’s largest … Read more
Dubai Day 2 Monday 9th October First up it was a visit to The Museum of the Future. It’s housed in yet another spectacular, purpose built structure with exhibits devoted to innovative and futuristic ideologies. The exterior of the building has a stainless steel appearance with windows in the form of a poem about the … Read more
Dubai – Burj Al Arab Sunday 8th October We took a few hours of respite in the afternoon before venturing out again to take a tour of the Burj Al Arab hotel. It’s a spectacular building. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s vision was a building that would be as instantly recognizable as … Read more
Dubai Day 1 Sunday 8th October We are so very lucky to be staying with Diane’s neice and her fiancé who have lived in Dubai for several years. They have a fabulous home that they bought last year and had it renovated. WOW, they did an amazing job so it’s just like checking into a … Read more
Paris for a day – the afternoon Friday 6th October Some more wanderings and the most amazing hot chocolate drink in the world. Although hot chocolate is a favorite drink in France I have only had 2 whilst here and the one I had today will last in my memory forever. It was served on … Read more
Paris to Dubai Saturday 7th October Now that we have sorted out the travel connections between our hotel and our departure terminal at Charles de Gaulle Airport it was an easy transition, but it still took 3 hours and our hotel was on 150 mts from the entrance of the train station where our journey … Read more