{"id":668,"date":"2016-08-09T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T11:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliachodor.com\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2016-08-09T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T11:54:49","slug":"welcome-to-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliachodor.com\/blog\/welcome-to-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately, with a whole family, we visited Dubai. Why Dubai \u2013 well, believe me, or not, but I would prefer to go to Baghdad or Damascus, as those are historic cities, but God knows, why someone decided it will be to be a war-zone. So instead of to see the historic places we went to see the biggest building and the Dubai Mall.<\/p>\n

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The giant aquarium in a Dubai Mall. Photo: Julia Chodor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oh, yeah, the Dubai Mall is impressive, especially the giant aquarium with sharks and other fish. Wow, there is even a cage so you can dive with sharks. Imagine this, you are in a cage, sharks surround you, the cage breaks down and the sharks are tearing your body to pieces while people around you are buying mink coats \u2013 a product of basic necessity on a desert. Isn’t it a beautiful death?<\/p>\n

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A coat. Photo: Julia Chodor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So just remember…<\/p>\n

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Photo: Julia Chodor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Let’s leave the mall and go outside. Here, with other people, we could admire the biggest penis, I mean the building, in a world during the fountain-erection show.<\/p>\n

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A fountain show in a front of the tallest building in the world. Photo: Julia Chodor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just don’t forget to take your mobile with you to record everything.<\/p>\n

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People with mobiles. Photo: Julia Chodor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once the show was over we passed the bridge and went to the… another mall. This one was the old Arabic market-style. Yanni (you know), this kind of market hall that you could see in Iraq or Syria before somebody dropped the bombs there.<\/p>\n

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Old Arabic market-style mall in Dubai. Photo: Julia Chodor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After this exhausting tour, we went to drink something, just to keep up with the Middle East Western expats’ tradition \u201eGo to Dubai to get drunk\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Julia Chodor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the way, there are still available plots of land, so you can settle\u00a0down here… on a desert.<\/p>\n

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Available plots of land. Photo: Julia Chodor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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