Super luxurious and futuristic lobby at The Jumeirah Etihah Towers On our second day in the United Arab Emirates, we decided to take the bus to Abu Dhabi, the richer neighboring emirate state. Like Dubai, Abu Dhabi was created in the 1970s from what was essentially before that a sandpit next to the ocean. Still struggling to find the main attraction in what is essentially a man-made concrete mass, I was at least curious to visit the famed grand Mosque and also to stay in th

It’s not every day that you land in a new sub-continent for the first time. I had been dreaming of coming to the Middle East from very early on in the incubation phase of my travel bug, but unfortunately didn’t take advantage of it’s closer proximity when living in Europe. And so I found myself a few weeks’ shy of my 38th birthday landing at Dubai Airport with my boyfriend, Matt, complete with those tingles that accompany me on every foreign adventure but have rarely been tri