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Wahhabalinese Adventures: Dubai

jani — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:54:46 -0800

The original plan had been just to do a simple transit in Dubai, but the flight I wanted on Tuesday was full -- a good thing, in retrospect, as not only was Bush Jr and his security brouhaha in town, but unusually strong rains made sure that the city was completely and totally jammed. Wed was full too, so I booked Thursday -- but on that day the connecting flight to Riyadh was full. Bizarrely, the earliest next flight out on SV or EK was at 4 PM the next day, 21 hours later (!), so there was no choice: I had to overnight. I shed a crocodile tear and rang up local resident F.

Wahhabalinese Adventures: Index

jani — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:39:09 -0800

Introduction

At a squeak over 10,000 miles, this trip is no great shakes when it comes to distance, but there can't be too many places on Earth with a greater level of contrast than its endpoints.

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 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?