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First Friday Foto Therapy
Blog: Travel With Julie - 3 February 2012
Mosque, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Taken by: Beau Fleming On the first Friday of every month, I will share a photo from my travels or yours.
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Dubai - Part Two
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 12 January 2012
Restaurant We were glad we chose to stay in the Deira area, which is the older part of the city.
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Dubai - Part One
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 6 January 2012
The Creek, Dubia We didn't initially think of going to Dubai.
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7s Heaven: The HSBC Dubai Rugby 7s
Blog: teach travel play - 10 December 2011
My relationship with my fiancé closely mirrors my relationship with rugby. I began dating Matt seven years ago when I moved in next door to the infamous “rugby house” located strategically between campus, and the bars. If ever a real life “Animal House” were to be, this would have been it. I spent afternoons wrapped [...]
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Leaving the Wild West.
Blog: teach travel play - 24 September 2011
In January 2011 I left behind my chapped, winter lips, wearing instead a gold wedding band, and rode in the passenger’s seat to Seattle, where Matt and I would board a plane bound for the Al Gharbia Desert. We didn’t speak Arabic, couldn’t have told you where this desert lay on a map and were [...]
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Green Dubai
Blog: Bit of Dubai - 30 August 2011
Dubai is a modern bustling city that emerges out of a harsh desert, but the city is a living proof of man's determination to achieve the impossible, the city boasts some of the most beautifully landscaped parks and arena's in the GCC. Continue reading →
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Sugar, Spice, and Souks: Deira Spice Souk
Blog: teach travel play - 11 July 2011
If you came to the United Arab Emirates in search of old world vignettes, tucked in narrow alleyways, filled with magic carpets, Arab men in colorful head scarves and puffs of jasmine flavored incense, you may be disappointed when confronted with the modern city. While Dubai rises high into the clouds with its contemporary sky [...]
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Top Five Must-do Dubai Activities
Blog: PassportChop.com Travel Blog - Reviews, Travel Experiences - 1 July 2011
It carved shimmering, sky-high tower blocks, manicured lawns and sprawling malls out of desert sand and it’s now carving out a reputation for itself as a bustling, adventure filled, luxury playground.
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Size Matters: The Burj Khalifa
Blog: teach travel play - 28 June 2011
If you are like me, and a large population of Australians, you are intrigued by, and often duped into making detours in order to view “The world’s largest can opener”, or “The longest dreadlock.” While hopping around Australia last Spring I was taken by how many signs I saw for “Broken Hill’s Big Bench” Or [...]
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A is for Abaya, B is for Betsey Johnson
Blog: teach travel play - 15 June 2011
I don’t like to be told what to do. Tricky character trait when faced with the challenge of camouflaging one’s self in the fabric of a culture not your own. After failed attempts to acclimate on the scene by drinking too much tequila in Mexico, or by wearing stilettos on Italian cobblestone until my feet [...]
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Summer Kick-Off, Road Trip to the Liwa Oasis
Blog: teach travel play - 28 May 2011
Summer is on the sandy horizon and for a Pacific Northwest girl that means one thing, Road Trip! Problem 1) My international driver’s license is not valid in the UAE…go figure? Problem 2) In an Islam nation alcohol is prohibited for purchase unless an alcohol license is obtained, which I am working on. But come [...]
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108 for Japan: Complete!
Blog: teach travel play - 20 May 2011
Little satisfies me more than doing my part to create a better world, and physical exercise. You can imagine then how elated I was Friday morning after completing 108 Sun Salutations for our Japan Aishteru fundraiser. The event was a huge success both in terms of monies raised and participation across the globe. Yogis from [...]
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A World of Music, WOMAD Festival Abu Dhabi
Blog: teach travel play - 8 May 2011
I used to be really in to the Putumayo world music albums and listened to everything from “French Cafe” to “North African Groove.” These albums allowed me to close my eyes and get far away from my actual self, not yet traveled, and live an imagined life where I was changing the world, jumping off [...]
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Dubai Is the Future, part 2
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 21 March 2011
[continued from part 1...] We arrived at the other side of the creek just as the Friday noontime prayer started. Aside from a few tourists milling around, taking pictures of the same penis-shaped minaret as we were… …the streets were deserted. We took our usual stroll through a supermarket, marveling at the mishmash of Indian, [...]
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O.M.G
Blog: An Englishman in Dubai - 17 March 2011
I admit it, I am a secret Usher fan. So when a good friend of mine sent me a text and asked if I wanted a ticket. I thought why not? I wouldn’t need to travel far as it was just round the corner in Media City. It is has been a rich time of [...]
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Dubai Is the Future, part 1
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 17 March 2011
When we use up all our water. When labor becomes completely globalized. When climate change sends temperatures above 120 degrees. When government regulation becomes so hated that zoning rules are chucked. Dubai is what the future will be. When Dubai was being built up, only about a decade ago, I was totally smitten. It was [...]
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A Taste of Dubai
Blog: teach travel play - 12 March 2011
Every city has its niche. None compete with Chicago Blues, Melbourne street art, or Hong Kong Dim sum chefs. If I were to pin-point Dubai’s most notable expertise it would be the city’s deliberate interweaving of architectural styles, cultures, fashions and cuisine. There was no better representation of this than last weekend’s Taste of Dubai [...]
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Friendly Fujairah
Blog: Sophie's World - 9 March 2011
We’ve come to our last emirate. Some of the seven we quite liked, others had less to offer. However, this is a region – and country – undergoing incredibly rapid...Friendly Fujairah is a post from Sophie's World
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Sand Sand Everywhere: First and Last Desert Safari
Blog: teach travel play - 7 March 2011
The sun may go down in the UAE but the fire still burns bright. Atop a tall spire, not quite as far in the desert distance as I would like is an instant reminder that I live in a country with the seventh largest oil reserve. This reminder, along with an expansive sand box for [...]
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Affluent Abu Dhabi
Blog: Sophie's World - 3 March 2011
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, holds a whopping 9 % of the world’s oil reserves, is the richest city on earth, safe, green, clean … and… dare I...Affluent Abu Dhabi is a post from Sophie's World
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Spry Sharjah
Blog: Sophie's World - 28 February 2011
Between Ajman and Dubai lies Sharjah, the third largest emirate – and perhaps the third best known, as well. Sharjah is also the most conservative emirate: alcohol is completely forbidden,...Spry Sharjah is a post from Sophie's World
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Anonymous Ajman
Blog: Sophie's World - 23 February 2011
Continuing our United Arab Emirates road trip, we came to the diminutive little emirate of Ajman. At only 260 square km, Ajman is indeed little, but with a quarter of...Anonymous Ajman is a post from Sophie's World
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The Grand Ole’ Mosque
Blog: teach travel play - 22 February 2011
I have come across a great deal of peculiar and remarkable sites during my travels: Cock-fighting stadiums filled with screaming fans in the Philippines, the schnee laufen team practicing with ski poles down cobblestone streets in Lucerne, Saki bombs and marriage proposals on top of Mount Fuji, and hands-down the best party I have ever crashed [...]
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Unsung Umm Al-Quwain
Blog: Sophie's World - 18 February 2011
Going south after our failed Musandam venture, our driver (you know, the one who had forgotten his passport) tried to persuade us to go directly from Ras Al-Khaimah to Ajman,...Unsung Umm Al-Quwain is a post from Sophie's World
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Remote Ras Al-Khaimah
Blog: Sophie's World - 13 February 2011
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) comprises seven states. Formerly British protectorates, the emirates (then known as the Trucial Sheikhdoms) joined together to form a federation when the UK ended the...Remote Ras Al-Khaimah is a post from Sophie's World
