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Also named “The Palace” or “Old town".
Don’t let the names fool you.
In Dubai is no City Center and no such thing as old town
The people delegating the money around in Dubai just decided last year that every city in the West seems to have an old part of town and they needed one too. So they distributed a couple of millions of Dollars into this project.
Seems to work, it looks nice so far - not really old, but it’s a nice try
(We got that information from one of the guys working in the Hotel)

A quick shot out of the cab - Hotel entrance

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Tomorrow morning at this time we will be at Kuwait airport, ready for boarding.
We will have a quick hop to Dubai - be back on Friday.

See you then

As usual, we were at the airport way too early. One hour before boarding, we still had time to grab a coffee and a croissant and for Floyd to smoke a cigarette and we, once again, waited for boarding to happen any time soon.

Wie ueblich waren wir mal wieder VIEL zu frueh am Flughafen. Nur eine Stunde bis zum Check-In und wir hatten massig Zeit, Kaffee zu trinken, ein Croissant zu schnappen und fuer Floyd eine Zigarette zu rauchen.

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But this time we were smart enough to buy a newspaper before we went through the passport control. You can buy anything in the area after the passport control, just no newspapers. Don’t ask!

Diesmal waren wir schlau genug, vor der Passkontrolle im oeffentlichen Flughafenbereich eine Zeitung zu kaufen. Hinter der Passkontrolle gibt es zwar alles moegliche, aber keine Tageszeitung Und wieder einmal durften wir dennoch ewig lange warten.

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Meanwhile I got watched by the Ladies in black with a mixture of interest and distrust. I don’t blame them

Derweil wurde ich von dem Damen in schwarz misstrauisch bis neugierig beobachtet, was ich ihnen nicht verueble

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