Dubai - The start of the 2009 N Hemisphere trip

The trip to Dubai was arranged so that Lianne could visit her birthplace. Unfortunately Seren (the youngest) decided to be quite ill on the day she was due to fly out. After time in hospital all was OK except that Lianne et al ended up flying out several days later direct to England. However, this did not stop Helen and I enjoying the 40+ degrees!!

We had a couple of trips to the new Dubai Mall so as to take advantage of the air conditioning. As with much of Dubai it has the biggest of a lot of things. There are the waterfalls which are 3 -4 floors in height with lifesize divers.

There is the aqarium where even the fish seem larger than those you see in the sea.....

Then there are the fountains that are over 1 Km in length with 5 of these "rings"...

and of course all overlooked by the tallest building in the world (due for completion Sept '09).