Day 4, Dubai: Recovery.

(Posted by Andrew about the events of Dec 15; Dubai, UAE)

On overnight flight gets us to our major destination on this journey, Dubai.

We considered staying at the iconic Burj Al Arab but the tariffs start at roughly $2500/night which is a touch above our budget. (This blog is read by the people in charge of determining each of our salaries; they should have a long, hard think about how much more interesting it would be if we could have afforded this place. Hint, hint, hint.) Instead we stayed at the neighboring Jumeirah Beach Hotel. If you can't stay in the best then may as well stay where you can look at the best, and the view from our balcony was not to shabby:

We arrived early this morning and had planned for a day of recovery since at this point we've done two red-eye flights and have accumulated 11-hours of jet lag. The schedule turned out to be almost as busy as London: a morning snooze on the beach, a short siesta after lunch followed by a four-hour power nap, and then a grueling evening effort to stay up late enough to go to bed at a decent hour.

Tomorrow we get back onto "scheduled fun".