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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
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This morning was the time I had been waiting for all week. The late nights, early mornings and weekend travel were made worthwhile by the chance to have Friday for myself. Friday was the day I could finally get to see Cairo and Giza for myself. |
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Written by Stephen Baines
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Friday, 16 June 2006 |
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I thought long and hard whether to write this or not. I've had quite a few trips to the Middle East in recent times, and in the main I've enjoyed them. The UAE, or rather Abu Dhabi, I have huge affection for and remember the place well and enjoy visiting it.
For once I was given the opportunity to go to Dubai - notionally the second city, but likely to be the one people of heard of in the UAE. For the first time, also, I flew with Emirates. If you ever plan to go to the UAE, do not fly with BA, go with Emirates; the service is a world of difference from BA, the seats are more comfortable, the in flight entertainment does entertain, and the food actually tastes of something and fills you up. And all this in "Cattle Class". You won't regret it! |
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
It's been a very long day. The training day was some 11 hours, but worthwhile, and the guys I was teaching seemed to get a lot out of it.
I was picked up first thing and driven to the office. The city I hadn't seen clearly in the night was now visible in all it's raw beauty. The buildings - even the new ones - don't scream out the way the ones in Abu Dhabi do. These buildings tease you, and show their newness in far more subtle ways. What did strike was the buildings that remained unscathed - in the daylight the bullet holes and scars from mortars were clearly visible. It seems that very little of the city truly escaped the horrors. Talking to my hosts they tell me of how they were born in the early 1970s, and were barely walking and talking when Lebanon was gripped with war. That they spent the first 15 or so years of their lives in a strange world where bomb blasts and gun fire were normal, and the news of a major bomb caused them to go "hurray! No school tomorrow", through to their teenage years when they'd be out drinking, hear a bomb blast, yet continue their nights, and how the cities restaurants remained full all the way through the years because they weren't going to succumb to it.
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