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    Dubai & Its Nasty Secret
    Dubai & Its Nasty Secret
    Dubai & Its Nasty Secret
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    Dubai & Its Nasty Secret

    By Paul Stevens

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    I've been to Dubai no less than 12 times and this brief article summarizes my impressions of this monument to profligacy shimmering in the desert. And it reveals a nasty little secret!

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Stevens
    Release dateDec 23, 2012
    ISBN9781301937783
    Dubai & Its Nasty Secret
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    Paul Stevens

    There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.

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      Like Paul Stevens' other books, it contains exactly 1 useful chapter that can be summarized in 1 sentence : "The secret of Dubai is that it has no sewerage system."

      All the rest of this book is filler

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    Dubai & Its Nasty Secret

    All Rights reserved © 2012 Paul Stevens

    An Article in the Sundowner Diaries Series

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    Dubai & Its Nasty Secret

    All Rights reserved © 2012 Paul Stevens

    An Article in the Sundowner Diaries Series

    At last count, I’ve been to Dubai 12 times.

    There are no mountains in Dubai. Nor is there any rain that you can speak of. Temperatures soar to an astonishing 48 degrees Celsius in the summer months.

    This is generally accompanied by an exodus of expat wives and children to their home countries leaving the husbands behind to work and cope as best they can.

    But the winter months are pleasant. And then is a good time to visit.

    For several years my son in law was an airline pilot for Emirates. This meant an easy and cheap flight from Cape Town to Dubai. Then a 45 minute taxi ride to their villa in the desert. When I say desert, I mean desert. Basically there are several

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