I Want To Visit Dubai

Genesis, what's it like living in Disney Land? Will it be an expensive trip? I'd imagine it would be expensive and everything there's expensive, right? Who can't want to visit some place that built a giant island shaped like a palm tree? And can make it snow in the desert?

What other tricks are up your sleeve?

-Mike





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That ski place looks crazy.



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why dont you try seeing a Nine Days show first?


baby steps Mikey..

Baby steps..

I've seen Nine Days several times.

-Mike





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i want to go to dubai as well, but i was thinking i'd do it in a stop-over type fashion, ideal hols if i had the money:

london to bangkok (via air emirates)
bangkok to phuket (via train)
phuket to singapore (via train, stopping along the way)
singapore to dubai (via air emirates)
dubai to london (via air emirates)

i heartlove the middle east. ;o) and apparently once you get there things aren't THAT expensive... that said, i work in sterling which is twice the value of the dollar, so i'm not sure. getting theres the expensive part.



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Hey Genesis, weren't you going to do a cover of a song by the Honeyz for me like two summers ago?

I was looking forward to that. Or did I totally dream that up?

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so genesis, if i went to dubai, everything would be like 'half price' just like when i go to the states?



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so could i get some nice designer goods for cheaper, or what i see in selfridges is about the same price i will have to pay? (i'm talking bags & sunnies, not haute pieces... i have a few spare pennies but i'm not rolling in notes!)



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i would bring pounds because that's what i earn ;o) lol. one day maybe. just need to get my passport back off the homeoffice! lol!



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"Underwater hotel in the works"

That's probably the coolest thing I've ever heard, lol. Forget the tallest building or the cheap gas or the two large malls....an underwater hotel is the first step in an underwater city, and that would be frakkin' amazing.



~lori~

i'm on just a 2 year trial partner doobie. it expired back in the middle of march and the home office has had my passport since the end of feb... yeah i know. its taken ages... so i'm applying for set M leave to remain right now... i called again and they were like 'a package has been sent out' (and because of DPA they can't tell me anymore over the phone and don't know) but it hasn't arrived yet... so i think a decision has been made i'm just not sure what it is yet! lol!

the cool thing about t hem taking so long though is my old visa is still valid, for howerver long they have my passport... its because i applied just before they changed the laws (mine was ?330, where now i'ts ?750 for leave to remain) and i needed to send more documentation so i think mine got bumped to the back of the queue and kind of forgotton about. we'll see!

hopefully everythings cool! because i'm planning to go visit my parents for christmas! would be hard w/o a passport! ;o)

ps - underwater hotel is well cool. might wait for that.



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once i get indefinite leave to remain, i'll be allowed to apply for citizenship one year after i am granted it... but i have to think about it because unlike you, as an american i'm not allowed to hold two passports... once i become a citizen in another country my us citizenship is void... so its a decisionmaker. obviously everything would be so much easier if i had a uk passport (it would open the eu up, if i ever wanted to live and work there etc) especially since i plan to spend the rest of my life here... but you never know. especially since the us is SO freaking crazy with letting people back in etc...

so i might just have leave to remain for awhile...



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Christina, being a Yank abroad, is the food there really that awful and bland?

-Mike





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Hahahahahaha.
You're American and you think we have bad food.



~ Sofi ~

"And so tomorrow there will be another number for the one who had a name."

ok. so the food... and the rain... two typical american 'england' stereotypes... they're not that bad really. i heart pub food... but only when i'm in the mood for it... its you're typical fish & chips, sausages & mash, jacket (baked) potatoes with various fillings... word to the wise: most of the time food doesn't come salted or peppered, they leave that to you, most things come with mayonnase already in it (even things you're like EW WHY IS THERE MAYO IN THIS!?) and most things DON'T come with sauce (beside mayo) unless you ask for it (even in mcdonalds, you order chicken mcnuggets which are rank without any kind of sauce and you have to specially ask for sweet & sour sauce) i have found that in restaurants the food is better than what you'd expect as a 'first time' american... its in peoples houses where it gets a bit crazy! nick (my bf) for example, ate nothing but meat, potatoes and cheese spaghetti for his whole life before i was in charge of what he ate (i'm the cook, lol), so i've had to introduce him to things like VEGGIES and fun stuff like that... not all english people are that bad though, but generally the rule of thumb remains: the less spice in the actual cooked meal the better and the salt & pepper is on the table for people to enjoy at their own pace.

also, in many smaller cities and towns they don't have much in the way of 'worldly' food besides chinese and indian takeaways... so if you're looking for a nice middle eastern place, or a japanese restaurant you're out of luck! being in a relatively 'large' city or not large just... worldly i guess b/c of all the tourists & students from all over the restaurants here aren't that bad. suprisingly though they were better in plymouth, which was a bit of a ranker city. and london is just around the corner so to speak so i'm fine on that front.

and it doesn't rain as much as people make out, even though we're having monsoons and floods at the moment, its a bit rare. no more rain than i had in baltimore.



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la tasca isn't full on spanish! its a chain! lol but yummy i agree... and i heart all of the italian chains: ask, prezzo, zizzi, and pizza express... and the french bistros are very nice...

shockingly the best restaurants i have eaten at in england have been in plymouth though, all owned by the same guy. he had a fine dining restaurant (2 michilen SP stars), a moroccan restaurant, an amazing italian, and a great sea food restaurant. and plymouth had the BEST japanese steakhouse that had a full on sushi bar as well. pretty elaborate stuff that i'd expect from a japanese restaurant in america.

plymouth was really nice for good seafood, because it was on the sea. i miss that! mussels and white wine... but then again i can just go to cafe rouge and get that! lol! moule marine (sp?) is probably my favourite summer food.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm food! its making me hungry now! lol i want to go out!

if



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We definitely had a la tasca over here for a bit. And yummmm whilst over on that side of the pond a few weeks ago we ate at cafe rouge and prezzo, wonderful stuff.



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