I forgot to set an alarm, so I woke up at 11… That would be fine, if I hadn’t booked a bus tour for the day.

I got my first injury! 😀 First of many I’m sure. I thought I would start with a glamorous one: I cut my palm on the sharp end of a toilet brush 😛

I then went on the bus tour (after getting lost for 2 hours): the tour was good, I’m glad I got the two day tour! After doing the city tour and having a river tour at sunset, I then took the night tour, which was my favourite, Dubai looks the nicest and most exciting at night, also the tour commentator was hilarious. Drove round the palm islands (A huge man made island in the shape of a palm tree (the national tree, does England have a national tree?… Apparently so: the Royal Oak according to Wikipedia, I guessed Oak, I didn’t know there was a royal variety). The island is mainly residential, apart from the aquarium, and of course s few malls… One thing you learn about Dubia is it’s mainly skyscrapers and malls. So much new stuff being built! There’s also a set of islands that you can’t get to by land called World Islands, which is a huge map of the world made of islands… Dubai is crazy.

Dubai: home of big shiny stuff and many many world records. Everything is the most… or at least in the top 5 😛 If there is something that can be made that displays wealth, they’ve probably made it. It seems that they want lost of rich people with lots of money to come over, because that’s who most of it caters for. I found out that the most expensive cocktail ever was made here and cost a lot! The most expensive licence plate cost over 1 million pounds. Lots of other things are really quite expensive.

They do like grass and flowers, but because it rains 3 times a year and only 12cm a year all the flower/grassy areas have water pipped out to them, luckily they use recycled water, so it’s not too ridiculous.

They have a different type of pideon, as well as occasionally a good old fassioned wood pideon.