Today was a very special day spent with my son, doing the 'tourist' thing in Dubai.
We started with a trip to the viewing gallery on the 124th floor of the Burj Khalifa Tower. VERY IMPRESSIVE !
Very well managed, well organised and quite spectacular when you get to the top, nowhere near as scary as I thought. As a person who is 'not that fond of heights' it was a case of 'Feeling The Fear and Doing It Anyway'
( There's a great book by that name by the way, one of my classic reads)
We followed this with lunch at the Dubai Creek Golf Club followed by a lovely stroll through the old traditional gold souks and the spice market. I LOVE the spice market, the aromas are diverse and fragrant and for me, SO reminiscent of my years spent living in Bahrain.
A lovely day, for me, a day truly 'lived' !


I believe that THIS is the smallest Church on the UK,
The wildlife on Devil's Island was SPECTACULAR! From parrots, to peacocks, to capibarra, portuguese mano'war,turtles etc.
Today we visited Devil's Island, French Guiana. Devil's Island is the place that the book Papillon, starring Steve McQueen was based on , the film was made in 1973 .
Well, we signed up on this holiday for Adventure, and my goodness, tonight we definitely got it !
The first 2 safaris were spectacular in their own right and I'll write about them in other posts but I have to write about this night safari while its still fresh in my mind.



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