My first weekend and after an 11 hour sleep to catch up on my jet-lag, I ventured as far as the local grocery shop to realise it is really too hot to walk far during the day so ventured back to the air conditioning of my apartment.
In the afternoon Ahmed, a colleague from work, took me on a tour of Dubai. It is actually a lot larger than I had expected and the amount of high rise buildings and apartments is astonishing. You go from low rise buildings with narrow one-way streets in the old town (known as mini Mumbai)...to the creek (which must be 3x wider than the Thames)..to the business district and the skyscraper strip on Sheikh Zayed Road...pass the local villas (locals have their own compound where the villas are built for them)...onto Jumeriah and the Marina where all the famous hotels are located. Here there are endless apartment blocks for about 2km all 40+ stories high.
Then we went for dinner and watched the England game in one of the hotel bars called "The Underground" with a few other people from Barclays and their friends. I could have been in Essex in the bar but I am informed that I have not been to the Atlantis yet!
One of the people I met is staying in the same apartment block as me and it is really nice to have met a few more people.
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