8 days of undulterated bliss in the United Arab Emirates

[World's End Stella]

You have clearly broadened your cultural horizons and I salute you, w. I mean, schlepping to the middle east to feast on the same food you eat in London and lying in a pond of chlorine and urine is proper David Livingstone stuff.

Now that you're a seasoned traveller, you could try somewhere really exotic next year, like Magaluf.

You know, I thought of you once on holiday, Charles.

One of the women who has been there many times mentioned a very expensive hotel in Dubai that they had attended instead one year. She hated it as the food was awful and the clientele largely consisted of anti-social snobs who went there mostly to reaffirm in their own minds how rich and sophisticated they must be in order to afford it.

It was at that point that I thought of you.