Thursday, July 12, 2012

 

Al Manzil

The top picture is one of the places we stayed in DoBuy. It is the Al Manzil hotel and it is in the district also called Al Manzil. It doesn't look as fancy as some of the hotels in Dubai, but it has the best rooms, the comfiest beds and the best staff of anywhere the Oldies have ever stayed. They felt sad to leave it to go on to a fancier resort that we stayed in for the last bit of our trip. Now just look at the road near the hotel. You might think that it is shiny because it is wet. You would be wrong. It is shiny because in lots of places, particularly near pedestrian crossings, the road surface is marble!! I liked to hear car tyres screech on the marble as they accelerated away when the traffic lights went green for them. I guess that if it ever rains the marble bits would be a bit slippery. As for the bottom photo, it is not a road. It is actually a footpath. We walked along this path a lot on our way from Al Manzil to the huge Dubai Mall. Because it is so hot in DoBuy most people are out and about after dark and it took a bit of waiting to get a photo without people in it. See how wide the path is, and notice the shiny marble strips along the edges. If you look carefully you can also see seats on the edge of the path for Oldies that need a short rest. All the trees along the path have little lights wrapped around them so it looks really pretty. I wish the footpaths in Canberra were a bit more like this.

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