Don’t pretend you didn’t want to check out the 4-metre replica at the Al Barsha Lulu’s just before the world’s tallest building was unveiled and renamed in one fell swoop in January. But you didn’t, and now it’s too late to take a gander at all that chocolatey goodness (and to dream of a giant [...]

What do you think? The Germans don’t want to bail out profligate Greece. Is this anything like Abu Dhabi’s reluctance to bail out Dubai? The logic of a bail out is that although it rewards behavior, the alternative of letting Greece, or Dubai — or AIG to give an American example — would be worse [...]

I had to post this. It’s an email forward. Quiet true My comments in italics.
He Says: “We should hang out sometime.”He Means: “I’m afraid you’ll say ‘no’ if I ask you out.”(Is THAT what it means???)
He Says: “I’ll call you later.”He Means: “I may or may not call you at some point between [...]

Dubai Municipality say they planted twenty seven million flowering plants in the city last year.
Driving around you obviously see that a huge number of plants are put in and then pulled out as they die off, but an average of a million every couple of weeks is staggering.

It’s generally reported that we in Dubai are [...]