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Week 111
Gold
My first thoughts of gold were of the…
Dubai’s,
Burj Al Arab.
We were expecting something special when
we visited this 7 star hotel.
However, we did not expect the views and
service we personalised received.
And this was all prior to arriving
at our destination, the
Sky View Bar.
Our first drink was served with
floating gold flakes.
Something all visitors to Dubai
should experience.
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Such a deliriously extravagant display of wealth — and the power that implies.
I wonder if the experience is somewhat similar to entering the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, with its magnificent vaulted space, its Michelangelos and all that gold. A place whose value cannot be imagined in dollars.
What’s it like to drink a cup of gold? =)
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It was very similar to entering the Vatican, Palace of Versailles and Schonbrunn Palace. Everyone in our group, nearly 40, commented that we were looking at t he reason for peasant uprisings.
As for drinking gold, it was surprisingly easy, if it was indeed gold. A good story if ever grand-kids come along and are old enough to understand and I still have the memory.
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<grin> I nearly led with the egregious extravagance angle. And, yes, knowing the elites are imbibing a month’s salary in a cocktail … well, that tends to bring the pitchforks out of the sheds..
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Sure does. Worked for a bloke who was telling us what a tough year it had been….they could only afford to create a wine cellar under their house that year. Cellars are not common in Australia.
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<grin> Let them drink bourbon ?? 😉
Very few of them *get it*. o_0
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So true.
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Someday we must share the Gold ATM too!
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Okay….but need ATM translation please. 😊😊😊
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You do know you can pull out gold bars from an ATM in Dubai right? Buy them like a vending machine
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No! I did not….but now you mention it not that surprised. We had a wonderful time there. Was so relaxing after living to timetables for nearly a month.
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