To sum up Dubai in a single post is difficult, but at least you’ll get a flavor of our adventures. The sun finally came out for good as we hit the road for an hour and fifteen minute trek to Dubai. We went up the tallest building in the world, from the largest mall in…
Hitting the Dunes
One of the traditional “touristy” yet fun things to do in the UAE is a desert safari – where you basically get taken bashing through sand dunes by a local driver on a mission to elicit screams and set up home base at a makeshift bedouin camp with food and activities such as camel riding….
Pohorylo Highlight #1: Grand Mosque
An exciting day visiting Abu Dhabi’s main event – the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, the third largest mosque in the world. We donned our abayas and took in a little UAE culture in the process…check it out!
Our first guests…go to Starbucks…twice
The eagle has landed! Two Starbucks visits and an all-you-can-eat-and-drink brunch later, we’ve have a great first day!
Back in the U.S.A!! Well, sort of….
Ok, so I haven’t physically been in the U.S. since September, but I was technically on American soil yesterday. How you may ask? Well, I had to go to the U.S. Embassy to add pages to my passport. Strict security rules prohibited me taking any pictures or video to document the experience, but I still…
Pretty Fly for a White Guy…
I guess the grass is always greener…or in this case whiter. Since we landed more than five months ago, we’ve been in search of new and interesting products to use (or just to commentate on). We couldn’t help but notice one of the more interesting range of health and beauty products out there involved whitening….
Sharjaaaaaahhhh yeah!
It was time to celebrate a Christmas gift – a weekend in the Emirate of Sharjah, the third largest in the UAE and new to us. It’s right next to Dubai, so less than a few hours away, but definitely a world away from its more famous neighbor. We found out hours before leaving that…
Abu Dhabi from the Air
The CEO of Edelman Europe was in town, and I was one of four lucky colleagues who was invited to partake in a helicopter flight across the coast of Abu Dhabi. It was a cloudy day, but that didn’t dampen our spirits. Check out a few photo highlights, as well as video from our take…
Camel’s milk…yummy!
From our conversations with friends and family back home, the one topic that seems to draw the most interest about the U.A.E. is camels. Camel races, riding camels, camel markets, camels in pickup trucks….all things you don’t typically see in the States. But of all our camel stories so far, perhaps the oddest might be…