Like living on a construction site!

As well as living right on the Al Salam Street tunnel roadworks project, they are now laying new sewage pipes in our area. Work on the sewage pipes starts about 6am right outside our bedroom window! The tunnel roadworks are 24/7 .... we love it as you can imagine!

....yours for the annual rent of £30k. Great.

Here's the view from our bedroom window......

Visit to Sowwah Island

I had cause today to visit Sowwah Island. This is where the main financial district of Abu Dhabi is being built. There will also be 5 star hotels and the Cleveland Clinic hospital.

This video shows the drive across the new bridge near Abu Dhabi mall, looking over to the right at the Marina on Al Reem Island, then left towards the Abu Dhabi Financial Centre and Stock Exchange.

Here are some pictures showing the Cleveland Clinic construction site with the ADFC in the background.

Things are moving on in Abu Dhabi, if a little slowly!

Emirati weddings

Here's an interesting blog about Emirati Weddings.

Thanks ultra[blue] .....

http://www.al-emarati.com/2010/07/so-just-how-diverse-is-uae.html

Burj Khalifa Dubai

I found this really good SlideShare Presentation on the Burj Khalifa:

Burj Khalifa Dubai

Google Search results

We recently made a trip to Dubai and before we went Caz wanted to check exactly where a particular store was. So of course she went to the font of all knowledge, Google. Because we tend to be looking for local things we have our default search set to google.ae (UAE). Caz typed in “where to find....” and before she had completed the phrase it threw up some interesting suggestions. So now we can see what the majority of people in the UAE are looking for!

I show screenshots here, comparing google.ae with google.co.uk (thanks to Google I now know that Red Dead Redeption is some kind of video game!)









‘nuff said ......