Galleries are exhausting, places a novice critic wanders around slowly, nodding sagely, frowning and expressing seemingly-knowledgeable scrutiny. If you know nothing of significance about art and artefacts, once you abandon any pretense to the contrary, wandering round a gallery really amounts to looking for pieces you’re drawn to because they look pretty/interesting/unusual/familiar. A taxi, a […]
3.03 pm – 3.09 pm, Monday, 26th March 2018(Room 809, 8th floor, Ibis Al Rigga, Dubai) Double or triple glazed windows don’t open but still hearing constant motorised sound of tens of air conditioning units in operation. Construction bangs, metal on metal, occasional vehicle horns. Plane taking off, Emirates. Dusty and hazy air merging into
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Roseleaf Cafe, at the back of Dubai Garden Centre, just off Sheikh Zayed Road, Al Quoz, 10-minute walk from FGB Metro Station March, 2018. Tuesday, 11.45 am. (*score out of 10) The flat white: 8. Looked too dark to not be bitter and it was a bit bitter, but still a nice coffee though. Although
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Abu Dhabi & Dubai – Lists and Practicalities In three words or phrases, Abu Dhabi (AD) first, then Dubai (D), in no particular order and not always 10 things to avoid stretching the truth when fewer things are worthy of being in a top 10 list. Most information relevant in 2017 and 2018. 10 food
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Dubai v London – how hipster coffee and warehouses don’t equate to a hipster ‘hood I gave up being a coffee-snob-in-denial after, “Turkish coffee, please”, resulted in a one-sachet-cappuccino followed swiftly, still nursing a burnt tongue and offended tastebuds, by a Google search for “hipster coffee Dubai”. Other than good Turkish and Arabic black unfiltered
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