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4 in Abu Dhabi
Thank you for the cold water and the shade, Khalidiyah bus stop
It was forty six degrees at a bus stop in Khalidiyah at 3pm when a security guard walked across the street with a cold bottle of water and put it in my hand. He said, sit in the shade of the building, the bus is late. He went back to his chair. The bottle was still cold when I got home forty minutes later. I think abou...
First time hereMy first afternoon on the Corniche, with a sandwich
Story: on my first afternoon in Abu Dhabi I sat on a bench on the Corniche with a sandwich, as one does. A man walking past said something kind and glanced at the sandwich, and I realised I had landed in the middle of Ramadan. I put it back in my bag and ate it later in my room, feeling like a child sent to bed early....
GraciasIs it normal for a taxi driver to tell you to take a cheaper one?
I got into a taxi on Al Reem Island one evening and asked the price to the Corniche. The driver looked at the meter, looked at me, and said, it will be cheaper if you walk to the next road and flag another one. I did. He was right, it was a third of the price. I rarely meet a man who talks himself out of a fare. I hope...
Conexión perdidaAgain, you said, and I said it back on the Corniche
We were walking in opposite directions on the Corniche at 6.30am, before the heat, and kept passing each other, three times in a row, because the path loops. On the third pass you grinned and said, again. I said, again. We have not met since. I walk the same loop at the same time on Thursdays, in case. It has been five...
