A couple of photos of the view from our hotel balcony. We spent a lot of time in deck chairs on the beach front - right next to the pool!

JAL hotel Dibba

I went to Dibba with Lyndel, Caroline, Caryn and Sheila. We stayed in a beautiful hotel and had a lovely relaxing weekend. Caroline is holding the freebie biscuits we were given. The window at the back is where the bath is, so you can sit in the bath and watch the sun set over the sea. The bridge on the right goes over one of the 5 swimming pools. Very nice!

Karen, Julia and I spent the weekend in Dubai, and picked up Lesley (on the left) who flew in for the weekend from Hong Kong! She had worked with Karen when Karen was in Hong Kong. We are on the Palm Jumeira and the Arabian Sea is behind us, with a view of the Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Beach Hotel in the far background. It was hot and humid there!

Dubai Mall

At the base of the Burj Dubai is the Dubai Mall - well over 800 shops. In the mall is this aquarium. You can watch the fish from 3 levels, or pay to walk through the tunnel. Very impressive - similar to Kelly Tarlton's.

(Around the corner is the Gold Souq!!! about 100 gold shops!)

High Rise buildings in Dubai

The main road runs through hundreds of brand new high rise buildings. Some are spectacular, and they shine in the sun. Many are almost all glass. In between there are still new ones being built. The building on the right is half finished, with the lower storeys having glass windows, and the higher storeys still to be finished.

We were in Dubai the other day and the sky was clear enough to see the Burj Dubai. This is the tallest building in the world and it dwarf's everything around it. The top is not finished yet. The lower sky scrapers are all about 40 storey's so you can get an idea of just how high the Burj is.