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Posted 9 December 2005 - Dubai (UAE):

We spent an exciting afternoon in the desert yesterday afternoon: jeep-driving over the dunes. It felt like one big rollercoaster which started to make me feel sick after an hour or so. Fortunately, we also had some stops on the way to recover and shoot some photos.

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Posted 8 December 2005 - Dubai (UAE):

Since I'm still in Dubai and I probably won't return here soon, I'll write some more about the city and what I have seen of it so far. Basically Dubai is a small strip of land where the desert meets the sea. During the last few years, it has been transformed into a hotspot for the region, but also for the world. The coastline is filled up with skyscrapers and luxurious real estate. Click here to read what the experts say. And/or to guarantee your place in this success story and find a nice place to live, work or just for showing off. One of the projects which is currently in progress: the world's tallest building: Burj Dubai, 700 meters, over twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower and approaching the height of the Tower of Babel).

There seems to be no end to it as the construction of another tallest building of the world has already been announced. The record will remain in town, because this 750 meters skyscraper will also be built... in Dubai.

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Posted 7 December 2005 - Dubai (UAE):

Although quite flexible from the linguistic point of view, I had some trouble last night answering the question "San Pellegrino or Perrier?" in proper English. First of all, I don't like to hear or read about food in English because it degrades my impression of the to-be-served meal. Secondly, whenever I speak a foreign langague I need to switch my reflection mode for both hearing and speaking. I can perfectly have difficulties understanding somebody who speaks Dutch, only because I expect that person to speak English at that moment.

'Perrier' is in the French vocabulary pool and I cannot match it with 'please' from the English pool. I can say things like "W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie" in Polish (click here for more tongue twisters and how they are pronounced), but the only answer I could give to the waiter was: "A, uh, Un Perrier s'il vous plaît".

The photo below is another view from the conference center. A lot is being built here and it seems that 10 years ago, the only big thing in the wide area was the airport. Nowadays, buildings pop up from the ground like pop-ups in Internet Explorer.

(© Dubai - UAE, December 2005)
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Posted 6 December 2005 - Dubai (UAE):

This photo pretty much summarises all I have seen of Dubai since the beginning of the conference yesterday.

(© Dubai - UAE, December 2005)
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