As anyone who follows my
instagram probably knows, I spent the last week in Dubai, attending the
inaugural Downtown Design festival. I have to say how much I loved Dubai, I
know some people absolutely hate it, some like to ridicule it’s ostentatious
ways, but I fucking couldn’t get enough of it. I’ve been around a couple places
in my time, New York, London, Barcelona, French Riviera, etc. But I have never
fallen in love with any of them. Even with all their beautiful architecture and
sense of being heavily steeped in history, I’ve always been like ‘wow, that’s
beautiful’ and a day or two later I started missing my beloved Cape Town, but
Dubai I instantly fell in love with. I love that everything is so new and
shiny, I love the city’s confidence, the ridiculous speed at which it develops,
the safety, the new money, especially the nu money vibes. I can’t stand old
money vibes anywhere in the world, can’t relate to it and its pretensions. Plus
I’m always irritated by the airtime it gets from the many of us who have no
real connection to it. It must fuck off already. Anyway, that’s another issue
for another day. Here are some pics from the trip, if you want to read more
about Downtown Design, and Dubai architecture, do check out www.visi.co.za, where I’ll be writing a couple
of updates to tell you all about that. Enjoy and have a happy weekend.
Random fact: Over 80% of
the people that live in Dubai are expats from other countries, and Dubai is
home to over 200 nationalities.
A FEW MORE TOURISTY PICS FROM MY INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
can not agree more! dubai is one of my favourite places. absolutely love it.
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