Last few hours in Dubai and so much I haven't written. The desert smog from sand particles in the air, the way our glasses fog up when we step outside into the heat, the cleanliness everywhere- no one eats on the run, no food or drink or chewing gum on the metro. The malls with every imaginable chain from Cotton On to Marks and Spencer's, Bloomingdales, Tiffanies ... a shopper's paradise and our nightmare. The pride of a city built on sand with vision and desi...

Here we are in the city of shimmering heat and malls! Somehow, we who hate malls seem to always find ourselves wandering aimlessly around malls on our first day in a new city. That is of course when we are not traipsing the streets in the heat of the day! Our first day in Dubai was surprisingly full given that we arrived at 7am after a 14 hour flight from Melbourne. We bought tickets for the hop on hop off bus and away we went marvelling at the architecture a...