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On the road again
It may be 35 degrees outside, but indoors at the FlySkiDubai indoor ski slope at the Mall of the Emirates it is minus 3 degrees. While that may not be as cold as a Berlin winter’s day, there is something unusual about an indoor ski field at a shopping mall in Dubai. But in a world where anything goes there can be few surprises.
We are on the road, this time getting ready to depart tomorrow for Cairo. What we have learned to day, en route aboard the Emirates Express, is that 42 million date palms have been planted in the UAE in the past ten years. Something for the Guinness Book of Records we are told.
But enough of that, Cairo awaits.