Again, Gray and I left shortly after 7:00 and made a high-speed ride to Marina. Gray is some years older than me and I hope to be similar fit then!
The Dubai Marina is a 7km long pedestrian zone around calm water with swanky yachts that cost some $ every hour for just bobbing around there, because the place costs more than 10000$ per year and meter length.
You can see what useless things mankind can do, building fancy houses for some (and leaving other people homeless),
Do you see the mosque? 3 brown skyscrapers are to be seen, too
so
watering the desert to have green grass
(and not giving access or even stealing water of the poor), but this happened all the time, from the pyramids to the churches in Europe and all the palaces around the world. And I can see the beauty but it makes me unhappy. Same here.
Gray showed me 40 brown skyscrapers around that place. They all were built at the same time and the locals could buy apartments for ~40.000€. Now, they rent them out for the same amount per year.
On the ground, you sometimes could find business cards of women who would come and help you if you have a stiff neck. Or so.
In the afternoon, with Phil’s help I tried to get rid of my IRR. Seems to be hard. Gray thought about Iranian tradesmen having small shops in some areas. In worst case, I send them to Nader.
I withdrew 100 dirham but made a mistake, I guess. I went again to that restaurant where Gray had had breakfast with me and I saw the (high enough) price of a nice dish but it was for a small size only and I had ordered a “bigger” one. So, half of the money was gone with one dish. Then I went to the supermarket, bought some bananas, a soja pudding and a chocolate for another 46dirham. But I will not need much more, still I have cookies, nuts, dried fruits and I want to finish them.
When Gray came home from his dragon boat race (the team was quite successful!), he started a cooking session on a same energetic level as cycling (or everything). My job was to keep the distance, so he can work on.
Elaine came 2 hours later from her long yoga teaching day and then we had dinner with Phil, who after that met with friends and three others went to sleep.