Gray is also an early bird, so we left around 7-something for a bike ride. We just closed the garden door, it is not necessary to lock anything, because Dubai is a very safe place. Partly, you can explain that by very clear regulations: if you have a problem with the law, you simply lose your permission to stay and no one wants to risk that. Our first stop was for breakfast in a restaurant nearby. Gray saw friends and they came to our table. They sell water filtering systems (and I can say that even after hours and not cooled down anymore, the water is still good to drink). After some nice food and nice talk, we left them, to go to and drive along the beach.
Gray showed me the club area of his dragon boat team
and a fish market.
The public beach is longer than I would have expected and all along is a running path and solar USB charging “flowers” with free wifi.
Help! This woman wants to push me in the water!!
In the afternoon, we made a second tour, but this time by car.
Gray knows a lot about the city and the different construction areas and some special buildings and now he was showing me the docks for the old traditional ships, the Dhaus. Repairing is protracted, complicated and handmade.
We went on to the place of a fitness event where Elaine offered 4 different Yoga classes on this and the next day.
You could see all variants of fitness activities but I had become sleepy in the car and combined with the afternoon heat, walking around was enough for me ?
As a next, Gray wanted to see the place where on Saturday would be the dragon boat race for him and his team.
On the further way, we made a stop at the port of the Dhaus in the Dubai creek, seeing what different kinds of loads they transport.
We went home through urban canyons between skyscrapers.
I would prefer if mankind would make more efforts to become reasonable, sustainable and human instead of building cities in inhospitable deserts or gaining land with enormous expenditures, giving people the illusion of immortality and infinity and a wrong idea of life and its essence. This is especially strange here, when you go along the beach and see women in bikini walking and women with face masks driving by in black clothes and black cars and the call for prayer comes from the other side of the street.
At home, Gray had some ideas how to fix my bike mirror and it worked!
He went out for dinner with me
and only shortly after coming home I started another night of deep sleep of nearly 8h.