Re: Dubai
Originally Posted by
solo
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Like anywhere places change and especially so when money has the power to change it.
Old Dubai was a fascinating place to visit in it's time. Sadly those times have gone.
I first went to Dubai in 1974 - I think - and I went there to work.
It was a bit like the Wild West back then and there were roaming bands of bandits out in the sticks still but the town itself was quite a mix of all sorts of people with the increasing numbers of oil workers, (like me!) adding to it all and we mixed pretty well I thought.
The Police were fair considering what some of us got up to and although Sharia Law was applied it wasn't like Saudi - and I have good cause to regret getting into trouble there.
My last "tour" in Dubai was 1984 and it hadn't "morphed" into the metropolis it seems to be now and was still growing slowly. I unfortunately got myself into trouble there though and left under a cloud after a spell as a
guest of the Sheikh.
That wasn't too bad though but I did deserve it for being such a drunken pillock!
Happy Days! stevmk2