• "Oh, It never RAIN'S 🌧 in Dubai" 🌂🌂

    March 11 in the United Arab Emirates ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

    "It Never Rains in Dubai" - well, all I can say is the Eckersall's have never been to Dubai !!🌧☂️☔️😅
    This morning was so overcast ☁️ it actually rained 🌧 fortunately not too hard but hard enough to send us both into the swimming pool where if we are going to wet wet?!!! It didn't bode well when the pool attendants started collecting all the mattresses from the unused sun beds on the terrace and covering the outdoor speakers with plastic covers. Eventually, around 1:00 p.m., the sun 🌞 finally showed its face 🌝, and everyone started applying sun cream. After dinner 🍽 in the evening, we walked along The Walk 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️and over the Bluewaters Pedestrian Bridge 🌉 back onto the Bluewaters Island that was all lit up and looking like the Sands Marina Bay Gardens in Singapore 🇸🇬. As we had walked over here the other day, the transformation at night really was phenomenal. There was live music underneath the illuminated Ain Dubai, there is a restaurant paying homage to Porshe cars with one car outside and two cars inside in glass boxes 📦. But to me the most amazing sight was the Dubai waterfront all lit up from the edges of the Palm 🌴 all the way around to the island 🏝 I was stood on, with just one exception the entrance or exit; depending on which way you are going, to the Persian Gulf, part of the Indian Ocean 🌊.Read more