Another great holiday adventure completed, our family is just back from Dubai. I will describe it with one phrase ‘A place like no other’. Will post my thoughts later this week, but here is a start. We stayed on The Palm, one of 3 artificial islands. It is unbelievable – they moved more than 100 million cubic meters of sand and rock to build 2 of the 3 islands. The 3rd island will contain more than 1 billion cubic meters of sand and rock.

As my son and I walked along the beach we watched this ship (below) blow sand into a construction site and had a ‘crane counting contest’ on all the buildings. We got to around 60 cranes, with the visibility low (It is estimated that 25% of the worlds cranes are in Dubai). Unbelievable.

Of interest, it was not as hot as we would have liked at around 25C. Although, one of the locals told me he loved this weather, especially when contrasted to 50C in August with 95 percent humidity.

Amazing place. More to come.