We went to old Dubai today, not the part with the sky scrapers and the athleisure, but the older bit, with rows of restaurants, jewellers, sari shops etc, from all over the subcontinent, the restaurants with a Salt n Pepper aesthetic and filled with families from all over Asia. This time it was to a […]
Social contract
Went to what is supposed to be the best coffee place in Dubai. A bit soul-deadening, like the rest of the city, and everything is breathtakingly expensive. The taxis feel especially pricy after Central Asia – my journey to the airport in Almaty was the same length as the taxi from the airport to where […]
This morning
This morning we took the ferry to Kadikoy and then a taxi to the airport, then to fly off to Dubai. Dubai is further than I would have thought – though of course closer to Lahore and just across the water from Karachi yet a different world. The last time I came to Dubai was […]