blogs about abu dhabi

Wahhabalinese Adventures: Abu Dhabi

jani — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:35:11 -0800

Abu Dhabi is not one of the world's great airports by any measure, but its quirky terminal seemed downright snazzy after the swirling chaos of DEL. Midnight is rush hour at AUH, but I had no problems snagging a seat from where I could contemplate the utterly bizarre mushroom-shaped spout of lime green and blue tiling that dominates the terminal, although any notions of Zen serenity were blasted out of the water by the endless loop of really, really loud trilingual announcements about vol eh-ygrec trois-trois-cinq a Casablanca or whereever.

Erratically Hellenic, yet Unexpectedly Arabic: Index

jani — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:09:08 -0700

An index of a miniature odyssey through Greece (Athens, Hydra) and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Abu Dhabi).

Unexpectedly Arabic: al-Episode ﺏ

jani — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:58:40 -0700

This was my first trip to the Gulf in living memory, and Abu Dhabi turned out to be even weirder than I expected.

Unexpectedly Arabic: al-Episode أ

jani — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:10:34 -0700

Ending up in Greece in the first place was a bit of a surprise to say the least, but consulting threw me another curveball at 8:30 on Wednesday morning. As I'd already finished what I set out to do, how about going to Abu Dhabi instead -- today? Well, umm, err, why not?