Transit – Dubai

And we’re off!

This trip is an epic journey around Morocco and then the UK. We’ve been planning for about a year, and hopefully we’ve got everything sorted. House/dog/cat-sitter, luggage, credit card… oh, and passport!

We started off awaiting the red eye to Dubai in the Emirates lounge, courtesy of my credit card (Citibank Emirates card if anyone’s interested – you get Skywards FF, a pair of passes to the Emirates lounge and chauffeur to and from the airport once a year – woo!) Since I’m starting off with a cold, I didn’t think I’d have anything to drink in the lounge, but then R spied an opened bottle of Veuce Clicquot in the ice bucket, so I couldn’t very well leave that lying there unattended…

That combined with the cold and flu tablets I took once I was on the plane meant that I actually managed to get some sleep! I know I dozed off for at least two stretches of an hour each, which for me is pretty amazing, especially in economy!

Now we’re sitting in the business class lounge in Dubai waiting for our Business Class upgrade (thank you credit card frequent flyer points again!) It’s a huge lounge, but there are huge amounts of people, too! Hardly any pairs of seats left, so we jumped on the first one we found.

See you in Casablanca!

Dubai

Dubai was an interesting contrast to the image of the Middle East we’d drawn up during our travels in Egypt and Jordan. It’s bright, loud and brash! It seemed like the only thing to do in Dubai was shop – and so we did!

K and I hit the Gold Souk and picked up some souvenirs, we went to the beach to look at the Burj, walked along the Creek and watched the dhows being unloaded, went shopping again, and then it was pretty much time to go back to the airport and head home.

What an experience!