It was good to be able to have a swim this morning.
Apart from the pool Marie uses and where Harris has his lessons (a fitness club), there are also "public" pools dotted around some residential areas where anyone living locally can turn up and swim. The one we used is just a few minutes from the apartment, is at least twenty metres long and has loungers with palm trees for shade. I swam twenty lengths, which
was refreshing, although I was a little sluggish after a gap of about two weeks.
We took a taxi to the Old Dubai and, after a visit to the museum, took lunch at a cafe beside Dubai Creek, which separates Bur Dubai from Deira.
We were slightly perplexed at the ingredients in Dave's Greek salad, and even more so at the non-appearance of my Bourekas. Eventually two dishes arrived and we realised the vegetables and pancakes had been starters provided on the house!
The food was great, but we were a little disturbed by some people feeding the gulls, who squawked, squabbled and bullied each other every time something was thrown over on to the creek side.
Dave writes:
I plan at the end of our trip tomorrow !! to put on the blog my top 10 of the last few weeks.
I'd made mine up a few days ago but a new entry has come straight in at number one.
Enter Bottle-feeding Harris.
I've not done such a task for well over 30 years when Marie and Chris were babes in arms.
Glad to repot the old magic is still there!
Museumed in again
And talking of top 10s, Lonely Planet makes the Dubai Museum in the old part of the town its number one so off we went.
Previous attack of museumoutedness (qv) now a thing of the past, we took a taxi and were dropped off outside.
It's in an old fort in fact with plenty of interest but some of the material and information from days of yore was down below and the narrative not greatly lit for my eyes at least.
Most fascinating though Is the dynamic rise of the city from the 50s and 60s into the wondrous economic powerhouse it has become.
Sport too with the world's richest horse race, the Dubai World Cup, on again at the end of the month.
Maybe I should stay on a bit longer!!
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