Posted by Jamaica kinda didn’t happen this summer due to a bit of a fiasco with tickets, so last minute decision led to us going to Dubai! Wow! It was really good! It looked just as good as it did when I Googled it before we left! Could not believe how much construction was going on out there! That will be THE place to be in 5 years time when everything is completed! The world’s tallest building, tallest hotel, only 7 star hotel, 40 degrees summer heat all year round, only islands created in the sea purposely for residences to name a few of the major attractions!
I personally thought people there were generally friendly apart from when it came to having to wait in queues.. Wherever someone is ‘supposed to’ wait behind you (e.g. on stairs, getting in a bus, at a supermarket checkout etc) the people of Dubai obviously have a different system.. All of the above examples are instances of where I have been waiting and someone has just squeezed in front as if to say there was no queue to wait in. That aside the people were willing to offer help when asking for directions and asking where is good to eat / visit. One person we stopped was stood with us for a good 15 minutes telling us all about buildings and shops where we were stood – he was actually really helpful!
Food in Dubai was good.. There was a MASSIVE selection on offer in all of the shopping malls we had went to, might I just add the malls were HUGE!! Some with well over 300 shops (Biggest I have ever been to!). There was Mexican, Chinese, Thai, Indian, Italian, American all side by side in the same malls! So as long as you were in the food section you were spoilt for choice! Ahh, I loved it! 
. Gold gold gold, there was so much gold on offer. I don’t personally like that much gold but I know a lot of women and other guys would and it was all 18K 24K and 36K out there, even some gold bars on offer too!
The heat was almost unbearable outside most of the time, temperatures over 40 degrees during the day and over 30 degrees throughout the night! With humidity so high you felt like you were covered in sweat the second you left any buildings! I would want to go back there in a year or so because there was so much construction going on I think it will look so different in that time!
All that said, as soon as I got back I had to get in front of the TV and check on Big Brother (so sad!).. Felt like I had missed so much of it! Darn, back to work now and to the UK’s unpredictable weather routine 
Boo!
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