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GAB wrote:Drive here for a while and you'll learn to tailgate, use your warning lights incessantly and for no reason, never use your indicator , beep your horn just for the joy of it or when any light turns green, cut across three lanes while on a roundabout to make that vitally important turn and finally you'll learn to grasp your fingertips into a little bunch and shove your arm out the window doing so, to mean "get stuffed I'm going to cut you off" (there is a rumour that it means "give me a little space/time" yeah right!!) Driving is a sheer joy!!
GAB wrote:No, don't catch cabs-go for the car. When I first arrived I thought, cabs are cheap no probs, but because I was catching 4 to 6 cabs a day I ended up with some of the same drivers which was a worry because I knew I was in for a hell ride before we took off. Then there was the no seat belt issue for my kids-always the seat belts were jammed under the seat and there was no way of getting them out. Then of course the drivers like to give you their numbers so you can call them, but it started to get weird when quite a few wanted my number and the crunch came when a taxi driver asked me to change the gears going down SZR. Time to drive. It isn't bad-it is necessary!!
GAB wrote:Stuffing Bears at the Bear Factory.
I mean seriously there is a heap of things to do. At the beach you can swim, kite surf, snorkel, build a sand castle have a bbq/picnic, go on a quad bike, jet ski.
You can learn Arabic, go for a ride on an abra, get lost in your car driving, go to a different Emirate, go to a waterpark, have a spa treatment, go to a Wadi, go dune bashing, go karting, sky dive, play snooker, go sand boarding, sailing, shooting,roller blade at the park, go for a picnic/bbq at the park, try a shawarma, go to Al Reef and have the best cheese bread eva,go paintballing, take a helicopteror plane tour,join a motor cross/motorcycle club, go diving,play golf, go fishing, take a dhow charter, go on that duck thing down the creek and on land, take that Big Bus tour, take a camel ride(anything else is an offence ), go to Magic Planet, visit the malls and go shopping, visit an Oud shop and check it out, go ice skating, go to Ski Dubai,visit a museum, go to Children's city, visit the Bastakiya, go clubbing and pubbing, go to an art gallery, watch cable and read Dubai Forums.
Wafaey wrote:GAB is u think driving in Dubai is a Sport then driving in Cairo is a kickboxing match and I'm sure Arnie would would back me up on this since he had seen it with his own eyes
arniegang wrote:I always remember walking towards the Museum from the Hilton, we stopped to cross at a junction controlled by a traffic cop.
The cars were all over the shop, and every time the cop had his back turned, the queue of cars would move forward till their bumpers were almost touching his legs whilst giving him "the horn".
Geeezzzz the cop was seriously risking his life.
arniegang wrote:Naples
I still remember the taxi ride from the airport to the train station. Short of time and i made the mistake to ask the driver to be as quick as he could.
I still have nightmares about doing 80 in a small cobbled street ,after passing the No Entry sign in a one way steet the wrong way