Dubai ~ Abu Dhabi

  Ibn Batuta shopping mall    Exotic car showroom which doubles as the Dubai agent for Nepal Airways  The fountains at Dubai Mall – by the same guys who did Bellagio in Vegas  View from Dubai Mall  Date palm grove near the Omani border  Dunes for buggying on  Ski Dubai; slope and bobsled run in […]

Cultural disconnects

What a culture shock; Sri Lanka to Dubai. But even before leaving Sri Lanka, on the way out of Trincomalee, I saw the last of three fancy-looking children’s playground with very colourful and carefully constructed equipment (lord forbid the little angels should learn to take care). Now there are plenty of things the children of […]

Paradise in a warzone

I found my golden beach in Trincomalee in the northeast of Sri Lanka.   This place should be paradise, but it’s suffered a rough couple  of decades. The north of Sri Lanka is about as close to the south of India as Tasmania is to Australia. So going back centuries, the Tamils in south India […]

Tea for two

  Today was one of those simply magical serendipitous days one gets every now and again when travelling. For a start I’d met a fellow traveller – a Swedish woman who has been setting up womens medical care centres in Dubai and has just been head-hunted by the ruler of Qatar to do the same […]

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