Not a very sharp photo, but the only one I snapped on my 1 1/2-day business trip to the United Arab Emirates. Arab men in traditional garb smoking and drinking beer in an Irish Pub in my hotel. It was my first trip ever to the Middle East, and Dubai is for foreigners like a Middle East with training wheels. In other words, very multicultural, everything bilingual in English and Arabic, very friendly people fluent in English, and a host of western hotel, restaurant and retail chains. It was clean, and almost everything is new due to the booming tax-free zone they've created there. The weather felt insanely hot to me, and I'm told it wasn't even that bad. Unbelievable shopping. Wish I'd had more time to speak to the people there, but was pretty much just a quick mid-week meeting with a potential customer. I had a very favorable impression of the place and look forward to returning on business or leisure some day!
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