An Impromptu Visit to Dubai....

Often I complain that we get no visitors and I tell family and friends, "even if you are passing through Dubai...I can get there easily."  Little was I to know that one week prior to our 10 week summer vacation two of my ducks would line up, and most seamlessly at that!

Tony, having an affinity with discussion and developments in metabolic disorders, along with (as I didn't discover until after reading and discussing with anyone willing to listen to my banter) being an author in the recent Lancent paper of May 29, 2014: Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013, was invited to speak at a conference in Dubai and asked if we were busy! Of course we weren't so I got busy making some bookings.

Then From the dark recesses of my mind, I hauled the details of my friend Janette's travels, and discovered that she and family were also going to be in Dubai that weekend enroute north - what a line up we had!

Below is a short video of our time in Dubai, day one was with Tony and day two was lunch with Edward where both Teagan and Edward reverted to hyped up individuals needing to be brutally prised apart at the finish.

As an end note: whoop whoop, Doha has an airport that is not an overstuffed, outdated henhouse with every living body scrabbling for the slim peekings....the new Hamad International Airport 'seems' to have been worth waiting for (we shall see on Friday night when Doha departs for cooler climes).

20140618 Dubai from Kirsty Merriman on Vimeo.