Sunday 14th Jan….After the weekend a couple of days at work and two of my friends from back home (Cambs) came out to visit. Thought it easier for them to jump in a cab from the airport!!! Except the taxi driver didn’t really know where the apartments were!!!
Eventually after a few phone calls and building descriptions (you cant really miss the building!!!) they arrived around 2200hrs.
A quick tour of the place, a cuppa char while planning the next day and off to bed for us!.
CJD and I went off to work leaving the visitors to explore……AND EXPLORE THEY DID! Out for hours and walking MILES!!!! I think driving out here has made us really lazy….when we think about how far they explored, we cringe! Saw the Gold Souk and walked to Jumeirah!!!! In the evening it was the traditional Burj al Arab Drive by and visit to the Souk Madinat Jumeirah….very nice little mall with a traditional layout! Had to buy these little cute glass cocktail stirrers all because they had little glass camels on the top!!!
Tuesday, again we went to work and the girls explored other parts of the city, and the evening was reserved for the Global Village. It is a large market divided into areas from around the world………a little disappointing as we were expecting all the areas to have traditional goods from the relavant country and much of it was the equivalent of pound stalls and tat. The GB area was easy to spot with the red phone box and “good ole” red London bus, but about as authentic as a plastic designer handbag!!!! CJD volunteered to put a few hundred lbs of weight on for a novelty photo and we made a dash for the RTA Dubai Metro Stand....well it would be rude not too!!! they had a mock up of a metro train, we just had to have photies!!!
The fairground was interesting….the four of us on a big wheel…….one of us NOT overly comfortable with the experience!!!! Gripping tightly to the central rod not really looking around! But it was a good night out and was finished off with a firework display as we drove away.
Wednesday, again work and sightseeing on offer. Decided to take the girls to the Emirates towers…..fantastic looking buildings……Ate at Scarlets, a pub/restaurant in one of the towers. The food, surroundings and company was fantastic! Just had to finish the evening with a visit to the Vu bar!!!!!! Such a selection of cocktails and it would have been rude not to join the guys in a shooter!!!. Around 11pm decided that as it was a school night we would leave the girls to have another drink and CJD and I would bail out while the going was good…………i.e. we didn’t over do it! F&R forgot their key so i suggested a phone call when they wanted letting in……..My only confession is to F&R……when you phoned me, I thought my alarm clock was going off….switched it off! TWICE…….if you hadn’t rung the door bell, you probably wouldn’t have got in, I was ready to lauch that phone……..my head was not connecting the reason why it was ringing at 01:30…….SOZ!!!!
Eventually after a few phone calls and building descriptions (you cant really miss the building!!!) they arrived around 2200hrs.
A quick tour of the place, a cuppa char while planning the next day and off to bed for us!.
CJD and I went off to work leaving the visitors to explore……AND EXPLORE THEY DID! Out for hours and walking MILES!!!! I think driving out here has made us really lazy….when we think about how far they explored, we cringe! Saw the Gold Souk and walked to Jumeirah!!!! In the evening it was the traditional Burj al Arab Drive by and visit to the Souk Madinat Jumeirah….very nice little mall with a traditional layout! Had to buy these little cute glass cocktail stirrers all because they had little glass camels on the top!!!
Tuesday, again we went to work and the girls explored other parts of the city, and the evening was reserved for the Global Village. It is a large market divided into areas from around the world………a little disappointing as we were expecting all the areas to have traditional goods from the relavant country and much of it was the equivalent of pound stalls and tat. The GB area was easy to spot with the red phone box and “good ole” red London bus, but about as authentic as a plastic designer handbag!!!! CJD volunteered to put a few hundred lbs of weight on for a novelty photo and we made a dash for the RTA Dubai Metro Stand....well it would be rude not too!!! they had a mock up of a metro train, we just had to have photies!!!
The fairground was interesting….the four of us on a big wheel…….one of us NOT overly comfortable with the experience!!!! Gripping tightly to the central rod not really looking around! But it was a good night out and was finished off with a firework display as we drove away.
Wednesday, again work and sightseeing on offer. Decided to take the girls to the Emirates towers…..fantastic looking buildings……Ate at Scarlets, a pub/restaurant in one of the towers. The food, surroundings and company was fantastic! Just had to finish the evening with a visit to the Vu bar!!!!!! Such a selection of cocktails and it would have been rude not to join the guys in a shooter!!!. Around 11pm decided that as it was a school night we would leave the girls to have another drink and CJD and I would bail out while the going was good…………i.e. we didn’t over do it! F&R forgot their key so i suggested a phone call when they wanted letting in……..My only confession is to F&R……when you phoned me, I thought my alarm clock was going off….switched it off! TWICE…….if you hadn’t rung the door bell, you probably wouldn’t have got in, I was ready to lauch that phone……..my head was not connecting the reason why it was ringing at 01:30…….SOZ!!!!
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