Glad to be home

Hi we are home now and it is very cold.
We left Turkey with some sadness. This is a beautiful place with such an amazing mixture of history, religion, culture and occupations and new friends.
We stopped of at Dubai on the way home and I wondered if I was in another world. The Arab people have a national costume. The men wear a white cloak and a veil like head dress and a lot of the womwn wear a black dress and veil. At the airport there were some beautiful African women dressed in their natural dress which has big puffy sleeves with a long skirt often worn with a layer of shawls and a headress made from matching fabric The earthy colours of these garments are spetacular.
The heat was in the high 30s so we caught a bouble decker bus the next day and did a tour of the city.This was surposed to take 2 hours and ended up being 4 due to heavy traffic congestion in the downtown city area. The builders working on the site by our hotel worked all night. The guide told us that on one particular building site there was 3000 workers working a 24hour shift. They had hoped to build a floor on the tall building of 75 floors in 4 days. Everything had to be big and the best in the world. It seemed a waste of enviromental resources. Sea water is recycled to water the trees in the city about 30,000 gallons is used so people forget it is a desert and it looks green and lovely. This place is built on sand. Our hotel receptionist told us to do indoor activities as they were expecting a sand storm.
Im so glad to be home and hope you have all enjoyed sharng our trip with us.